Mar 12 1968
From The Space Library
NASA awarded $13,748,200 contract to General Electric Co.'s Missile and Space Div. for integration and test of 1,400-lb Nimbus D meteorological satellite. Nimbus D, fourth in series, would be launched in 1970 carrying 10 experiments to improve long-range weather forecasting and further study of earth's atmosphere. (NASA Release 68-46)
MSFC awarded $5,779,884 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Chrysler Corp., bringing total to $14.7 million, for ground support and engineering equipment for Saturn IB program. (SFC Release 68-41)
DOD awarded $456-million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. for development and production of Poseidon (C-3) missile system, making definite March 1966 letter contract for $26.6 million. Addition of $25 million had been awarded in October 1967 modification and total funding allocated to date was $507.7 million. About $1.2 billion would be spent through 1971. (UPI Release 230-68; AP, NYT, 3/13/68, 8)
AFSC Aeronautical Systems Div. awarded Bendix Corp. $677,500 initial increment to $1.4-million contract for reentry vehicle systems reliability testing. (DOD Release 231-68)
Analysis of Luna IX (launched Jan. 31, 1966) TV photos showed lunar mass was decreasing because of micrometeoroid bombardment, Soviet scientist A. A. Gurshteyn reported. He explained that speed of particles dislodged by falling micrometeoroids often exceeded second escape velocity for moon of only 2.4 km per sec. (SBD, 3/12/68, 61)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
