Mar 28 1977
From The Space Library
Direct-readout equipment for GOES, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, installed in the USAF global weather center at Offutt AFB, Neb., to support Air Force meteorology requirements, would improve the center's forecasting and accuracy, Av Wk reported. (Av Wk, Mar 28/77, 11)
Project Halo (high-altitude large optics), a space-based system proposed by DOD's Advanced Research Projects Agency to detect and track foreign missiles and aircraft, would require 6 Space Shuttle payloads to orbit its structures and equipment, Av Wk reported. ARPA's Halo research had focused on systems analysis, infrared focal planes, optics, cryogenic cooling, power sources, data utilization, and phenomenology. (Av Wk, Mar 28/77, 11)
The USAF Rocket Propulsion Laboratory had successfully test-fired small solid-fuel rocket motors having nozzles molded into the end of the propellant grain instead of externally mounted, Av Wk reported. Use of integral nozzles would reduce costs of manufacture and would allow more propellant per rocket. (Av Wk, Mar 28/77, 11)
Japan's Natl. Space Development Agency planned to launch 2 satellites in 1978 to replace missions that failed during 1976, Av Wk reported. Scheduled for Feb. 1978 was an ionospheric-research mission to replace an identical craft that malfunctioned in orbit in March 1976. An x-ray research satellite similar to a mission that failed during launch Feb. 4, 1976, might lift off in Aug. or Sept. 1978. (Av Wk, Mar 28/77, 26)
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