Jan 28 1968
From The Space Library
Airborne laboratory, Convair 990 jet aircraft Galileo, had completed more than one week of flights above Alaskan-Canadian area in NASA'S 1968 Airborne Auroral Expedition, based at Churchill Research Range, NASA reported [see Jan. 18]. Scientists had obtained hundreds of unique color photos of auroras and had reported unusually clear night views of towering auroral displays. Aircraft had provided superior data at altitudes previously reached only by balloons. Expedition scientists intended to establish more precisely width and extent of Auroral Oval region-belt usually located below 80° north latitude and often extending as far south as 55° north latitude. (NASA Release 68-18)
Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Committee had successfully installed and tested Pakistan's first satellite tracking station at Dacca, East Pakistan. Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) station capable of receiving cloud-cover photographs via U.S. Nimbus and ESSA satellites would enable meteorologists to forecast cyclones, which frequently struck Pakistan. (AP, NYT, 1/29/68; AP, NYT, 2/20/68, 61)
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