Jul 14 1970
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had issued RFPS to potential experimenters for scientific investigations based on data acquired during ERTS missions A and B, scheduled for 1972 and 1973 launch. Missions would be first in U.S. space program devoted exclusively to study of earth's environmental resources from space. They were designed to improve methods for managing resources. ERTS A and B sensors would obtain image data in visible and infrared spectrum using spectral ranges previously studied by instrumented aircraft and verified by Apollo 9 experiment in March 1969. Proposals were due April 15, 1971. (NASA Release 70-117)
MSFC engineer Hans F. Wuenscher was awarded U.S. patent 3 520 496 for Serpentuator-snake-like instrument to move men and tools under weightless conditions around space station. Series of metal tubes with motors at joints to control angles could be regulated from control panel inside or outside space station. (Jones, NYT, 7/18/70, 29; Patent Off)
U.K. launched Skylark SL-971 sounding rocket from Woomera Rocket Range, Australia, carrying rotation collimator x-ray telescope to detect x-ray stars in region of Scorpius and Sagittarius. (Spaceflight, 12/12/70,484)
Selection of Harrison A. Storms, NR Aerospace Div. Vice President, as recipient of 1970 Aircraft Design Award was announced by AIAA. He would receive $500 honorarium sponsored by Northrop Corp. for "direction of the engineering effort that led to the design and development of the XB-70 aircraft" at July 21 AIAA meeting in Los Angeles. (AIAA Release)
Siegfried H. Reiger, ComSatCorp Vice President-Technical, died at age 50. Reiger had joined ComSatCorp in 1963 and had been directly responsible for technical activities, including launching of comsats for global comsat system. (ComSatCorp Release 70-41)
July 14-28: First meetings of joint working group established under Sept. 18, 1969, U.S.-India agreement on instructional television (ITV) satellite experiment project were held. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and NASA personnel' visited Bombay, New Delhi, and facilities in project. One-year experiment would provide first community broadcasting of TV by NASA ATS-F satellite to small village receivers-without use of large ground relay stations. (NASA Release 70-121)
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