Jul 12 1989
From The Space Library
An ESA Ariane 3 launch vehicle carrying an experimental communications satellite was successfully launched from the Kourou launch facility in French Guiana. The 161-foot Mane 3 placed the European Olympus 1 satellite in a preliminary orbit from which it would boost itself into a 22,300-mile geosynchronous orbit over the equator. (SSR 1989 053A-C; UPI, Jul 12/89)
Robert O. Aller, NASA's Director of Space Operations, resigned to avoid falling under a new Government ethics regulation that restricts post-Federal employment on Government-related contracts. Aller became the ninth high level NASA official to resign in recent weeks and the third to cite publicly the new regulation as the cause for his departure. (AP, Jul 12/89; C Trib, Jul 12/89; W Times, Jul 13/89; B Sun, Jul 13/89)
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