Nov 5 1977
From The Space Library
Today newspaper reported that two launch failures in Sept. at Cape Canaveral (explosions of an Atlas Centaur and a Delta rocket) had altered the schedule to include launch of a Meteosat Nov. 17 on a Delta; an INTELSAT Dec. 8 on an Atlas Centaur; and the Japanese comsat (originally scheduled for launch Dec. 8) Dec. 14 on another Delta. ESA's Meteosat, originally scheduled to go on Nov. 15, had been put off 2 days for further checkout of the Delta; the INTELSAT was put off from Nov. 10 to Dec. 8 for further checkout of the Atlas Centaur. The 15 missions scheduled for launch from the Cape next yr had risen to 17: a FltSatCom launch for the Navy originally scheduled for Dec. 15 had been pushed forward to 1978, and a launch of ESA's OTS backup had been added to replace the one that failed. (Today, Nov 5/77, IA)
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