Sep 7 1978
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had selected Computer Sciences Corp., Falls Church, Va., to negotiate a 2yr cost-plus-award-fee contract for engineering support and related services at Wallops Flight Center. The contract would include support of instrumentation, computer operations, programming, data support, aerodynamics, mechanical design, and systems integration, both for flight articles and ground instrumentation facilities and for related specializations. The company's bid was approximately $3.8 million; the contract, effective Oct. 1, would contain options for three additional 1-yr periods. WFC would administer the contract. (WFC Release 78-14)
Tokyo Univ.'s Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science had successfully launched a satellite to study the phenomenon of northern lights, the Washington Post reported. The 200-lb Exos B, one of three artificial moons to be launched in Japan's international magnetic-sphere observation program, would orbit the earth in an elliptical trajectory every 8hr 45min. The northern lights (aurora borealis) was a luminous phenomenon best viewed in the Arctic region. (W Post, Sept 7/78, A-16)
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