Mar 7 1964
From The Space Library
TIROS VIII meteorological satellite, launched December 21, 1963, was performing highly successfully in automatic transmission of cloud pictures to ground stations around the world, NASA announced. "Reports from 47 ground stations around the world, including five foreign stations, show that with one exception results have been satisfactory. TV signal strength has been good, tracking of the spacecraft based on data furnished daily by NASA has been easy for the ground stations, and picture contrast of the cloud cover photos generally has been excellent." ( NASA Release 64-53)
Beckman Instruments, Inc., of Fullerton, Calif., said it received a contract for more than $1 million from Grumman Aircraft to produce a data acquisition system to be used in development and test of LEM at White Sands Missile Range. (UPI, Houston Chron., 3/7/64)
Univ. of Miami President Henry King Stanford announced the university's School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, to open next autumn, would be the first of its kind in the nation. With Dr. S. Fred Singer as dean, the school would be composed of the Institute of Marine Sciences and three new institutes-planetary bioscience, atmospheric science, and space physics. The institutes would offer courses leading to both masters' degrees and doctorates. (Mann, Miami Herald, 3/8/64)
Patent for system of space communications using x-rays has been granted to Henry R. Chope, executive vice president of Industrial Nucleonics Corp., Columbus, Ohio. The 11/2-lb. transmitter employed radioisotope as source of energy. (NYTS, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 3/7/64)
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