Apr 5 1977
From The Space Library
NASA, which had issued a press kit on plans for an April 15 launch of the high-energy astronomy observatory HEAO-A, said it had postponed the launch because of a malfunction in one of the gyroscopes controlling altitude, essential to the mission. The agency had not set a new date for the launch; it had returned the defective gyroscope to the manufacturer, Bendix Corp., in Teterboro, N.J. (NASA Releases 77-45, 77-71; Marshall Star, Apr 6/77, 1)
NASA announced it would join EPA and the Univ. of Md. in sponsoring a conference on the use of remote sensing to solve Chesapeake Bay ecological problems. The 80 participants would discuss use of satellites (particularly NASA's earth resources monitoring satellite Landsat) to obtain information on land use, resources exploitation, and pollution. (NASA Release 77-70)
Marshall Space Flight Center announced award of a $918 523 contract to T.H. Taylor Construction Co., Montgomery, Ala., for construction of permanent and semipermanent steel working platforms on the modified dynamic test stand. The stand would hold an entire Space Shuttle assembly during mated vertical ground-vibration tests scheduled for 1978. (MSFC Release 77-54)
NASA announced that Miles Ross, KSC deputy director since 1971, had resigned to become European regional manager in Brussels for his previous employer, TRW Systems Intl. (NASA Release 77-76; KSC Release 88-77)
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