Sep 16 1964
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
NASA Flight Research Center announced award of $82,000 contract to General Electric Co. for study of flight instrumentation for use on a research ramjet to be carried on the X-15A-2 aircraft. Major portion of the instrumentation would be thrust/drag measuring device and appropriate sensors to measure net thrust or drag transmitted to the X-15 aircraft from the ramjet. Design of this device also would provide capability to jettison the ramjet from the aircraft (FRC Release 21-64)
OGO I satellite probably would obtain 50%-and perhaps as much as 75%-of planned scientific data, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Director Dr. Harry J. Goett said at Washington news conference. The satellite was still not locked onto the earth but was spinning at rate of 5 rpm. All 20 experiments had been turned on and had transmitted data, but only 17 were sending back useful information. Although OGO I was "crippled," Dr. Goett said, "we have quite a vigorous cripple." For example, the satellite was transmitting 10 times more data bits than ever received from the most advanced Explorer-class scientific satellite. (NASA Transcript)
Rep. Joseph M. Montoya (D. N. Mex.) said Aug. 28 test of Kiwi B-4A nuclear reactor was "the culmination of seven previous tests-first begun in 1959. The Kiwi project has had as its basic objective the development of basic graphite nuclear rocket technology. With the completion of the Kiwi project, Los Alamos [Scientific Laboratory] will be directing its future nuclear rocket efforts to development of advanced, higher power, graphite reactor technology under the project name, Phoebus. . . "In a great sense the groundwork for nuclear space propulsion has been laid through the success of the Kiwi project. We are on the brink of witnessing a great event-the beginnings of the nuclear space age. We might even compare the success of the Kiwi project in the space age with the combustible engine and its profound effect on the motorcar industry. "It is altogether fitting that this revolutionary accomplishment in the space age took place in Los Alamos-the Kitty Hawk of the nuclear age. And the birthplace of the atomic bomb. . . ." (CR, 9/16/64, A4719-20)
Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Director of Research Projects Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, was awarded the Hermann Oberth Medal by the West German Association for Rocket Research Technique and Space Flight at annual meeting of West Berlin's Scientific Association for Air and Space Flight. (Reuters, Houston Post, 9/17/64)
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