Jul 9 1962
From The Space Library
TIROS V stopped transmitting pictures from the Tegea-lens, medium-angle camera. The Tegea camera system transmitted 4,701 pictures of which 70% were considered excellent quality. The wide-angle Elgeet-lens camera, which is still functioning, had transmitted 5,100 pictures to date, some of which aided in the analysis of Typhoon Joan over the Western Pacific.
NASA scientists concluded that the layer of haze reported by Astronauts Glenn and Carpenter was the little-understood phenomenon called "airglow. ' Using a photometer and other instruments, Carpenter was able to measure the layer as being 2-degrees wide. Airglow accounts for much of the light of the night sky.
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory announced development of the gallium arsenide diode, capable of generating light at wave lengths in the near-infrared region. Use of this diode was expected to be useful in closed-circuit television and in communication with re-entering spacecraft, since the infrared beam may be able to penetrate the ionized plasma sheath built up around a spacecraft as it re-enters the earth's atmosphere. Development was reported by R. J. Keyes and T. M. Quist of the Lincoln Laboratory's applied physics group.
General Thomas D. White, former USAF Chief of Staff, wrote in Newsweek article: "There are military requirements in space which this nation can fail to fulfill at its grave peril. . . . I wish we would move faster on the satellite inspector and interception. We soon may need to verify what the Soviets have put into space; we may someday want to shoot it down. . . . Another intriguing concept . . . ought to have more steam and money behind it. This is the true 'space "
July 9-14: Communist-led World Peace Congress opened in Moscow with more than 2,000 delegates from 101 countries attending. Purpose of the Congress was to line up as much world opinion as possible behind U.S.S.R. foreign policy, particularly in the area of disarmament.
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