Oct 31 1975
From The Space Library
Kennedy Space Center announced award of a $4 778 000 contract extension to Bendix Corp.'s Launch Support Div. for support services including operation and maintenance of Launch Complex 39, mobile launchers, mobile service structure, industrial complexes, technical shops, propellant systems, life-support facilities, and a components-cleaning laboratory. The 4-mo extension brought the total value of the contract to $266 662 753. Complex 39, launch site for the Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project missions, would be the launch and landing site for Space Shuttle. Modification of the facilities was under way. (KSC Release 260- 75)
Marshall Space Flight Center announced selection of Moog, Inc. for a $6 685 584 cost-plus-incentive-fee/award fee contract to design, produce, test, and maintain the Solid Rocket Booster Thrust Vector Control (TVC) electrohydraulic servoactuators. The devices move the Solid Rocket Booster exhaust nozzle, providing directional control by gimballing the nozzle during propellant burn. (MSFC Release 75- 232)
Langley Research Center had awarded General Electric of Phila. a 2.5yr $3.2 million contract to provide an orbital scatterometer for the SEASAT-A spacecraft scheduled for launch in 1978. The scatterometer would measure wind speed and direction. (SBD, 31 Sept 75, 317)
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