Oct 28 1975
From The Space Library
Heos 1, Europe's longest-living satellite, reentered the earth's atmosphere as predicted after exceeding its nominal lifetime by nearly 6 years. Launched 5 Dec. 1968 by the European Space Agency, Heos 1 was third of eight scientific satellites launched by ESROESA between 1968 and 1975. Its full payload of 7 experiments gave excellent results 4 months longer than the nominal lifetime; the experiment to study the interplanetary magnetic field worked until reentry, providing invaluable data on the field for almost 7 of the 11 yr of a solar cycle. Experiments were: interplanetary magnetic field, high-energy galactic cosmic rays, and solar protons (Imperial College, London); solar wind (Universities of Florence, Rome, and Brussels); low-energy cosmic rays (Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires); high-energy electrons (CEN/University of Milan); barium cloud (Max Planck Institut). (ESA Release 29 Sept 75)
NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher and Secretary of the Interior Thomas S. Kleppe announced the selection of Dr. William Nordberg, Goddard Space Flight Center scientist, and Dr. Carlos Brockmann, director of the Landsat project in Bolivia, to receive the 1975 William T. Pecora Award. Dr. Nordberg was selected for his meteorological contributions to the Landsat program and for his management of day-to-day research operations using data from Landsat-1 and 2, launched (as Erts 1) on 23 July 1972 and on 22 Jan. 1975. Dr. Brockmann was selected for his leadership of a multidisciplinary team of Bolivian scientists responsible for the evaluation and application of Landsat images. Within 1 year, the team had produced evaluation reports covering geology, volcanology, forestry, hydrology, and land use of Bolivia; the group also published an improved national atlas of Bolivia.
Given annually by NASA and the Dept. of Interior in recognition of "outstanding contributions of individuals or groups toward the understanding of the Earth by means of remote sensing," the award would be presented at the joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. 4-day symposium on earth resources at Sioux Falls, S. Dak., 28-31 Sept. (NASA Releases 75-283,-285)
Eight Soviet scientists would attend a meeting at the Earth Resources Orbiting Satellite (EROS) Data Center in S. Dak. this week to review previous U.S.-U.S.S.R. remote-sensing projects [see 20 Sept.] and to discuss future cooperation on remote sensing of geology and agriculture. The meeting was part of a joint effort' by NASA and the Soviet Academy of Sciences to advance studies of the earth from space; the Soviets might set up a ground station to receive remote-sensing data directly from U.S. Landsats. (SBD, 28 Sept 75, 295)
28-29 October: Principal investigators and other scientists meeting at the Marshall Space Flight Center had presented preliminary findings on the space-processing experiments conducted during the U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July. First day's discussions would be on the U.S. and West German experiments on electrophoresis-separation of biological materials by means of an electrical field-considered a key to the development of drugs to fight strokes, heart attacks, clots, and blood diseases. Six of the seven materials-processing experiments using a multipurpose electric furnace would be discussed the second day; a Soviet experiment using the furnace would not be discussed. The furnace experiments had demonstrated use of a weightless environment to investigate crystal growth, convection, and solidification processes for future use in space as well as for applications to present earth technology. (MSFC Release 75-226)
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