Oct 8 1975
From The Space Library
NASA announced award of a $1.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Rockwell International Corp. for development of a solidstate bubble-memory data recorder to meet spacecraft data-storage requirements. The recorder, which would have no moving parts, would offer a capacity of 100 million bits, serial or parallel data input/output operation, user-selected data rates, and direct access to the memory. Rockwell would complete the work in two phases: A prototype would be completed by early 1977, and a flight-qualifiable model would be produced by early 1978. Langley Research Center would manage the contract for NASA. (NASA Release 75-272)
Cosmos 775, believed to be third of a series in the Soviet Union's Statsionar communications-satellite program, was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome into a very low near-circular earth orbit. Its predecessors, Cosmos 637 and Molniya I-S, had been launched 26 March and 29 July 1974. The satellites were to supply communications, including telephone, telegraph, TV, and phototelegraph transmissions, between the Soviet Union and Europe and between the capital and extreme eastern portions of the U.S.S.R. Once the Statsionar communications system was established, the U.S.S.R. was expected to undertake implementation of a synchronous meteorological satellite system as early as the 1976-77 period. (SBD, 16 Sept 75, 232)
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