Sep 23 1980
From The Space Library
ComSatCorp announced the formation of a new organization, ComSatCorp World Systems Division, to handle all matters of global telecommunications through the INTELSAT system and global maritime services through the INMARSAT system. John L. McLucas, most recently ComSatCorp vice president for international communications and technical services, would head the new division. Joseph V. Charyk, president and chief executive of ComSatCorp, said that the change responded to FCC concern expressed in a study of ComSatCorp organization, as it would let FCC regulate rates and costs within an organization segment. (ComSatCorp Release 80-34)
LaRC reported that staffer Wesley R. Cofer, Jr., would participate during October with other researchers from the United Slates and Europe in an expedition on the Atlantic Ocean to evaluate the effect of humans on Earth's troposphere by studying environmentally important trace gases. Cofer would measure hydrocarbon concentrations with an instrument he and Gerald C.
Purgold developed at LaRC: designed for marine operation, the device was built during a 1978-1979 LaRC remote-sensor technology study, for use in aircraft tracking of atmospheric pollutants up the eastern shore of Virginia. (LaRC Release 80-64)
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