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... 2005. Under the US$145 million contract, Lockheed Martin would be responsible for building the orbiter and for integrating and testing six scientific instruments and two engineering payloads. In addition, Lockheed ... Mars Mission,” news release c01-w, 3 October 2001; Lockheed Martin , “ Lockheed Martin Chosen by NASA and JPL to Build the 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ,” 3 October 2001, http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news ...

... .4ø inclination. Equipment was functioning normally. ''(Tech Wk, 3/20/67, 13)'' NASA would delay scheduled 1967 launch of second Orbiting Astronomical Observatory ( Orbiting Astronomical Observatory OAO ) until late 1968 to incorporate changes ... circular orbit, or smaller payloads into an elliptical orbit 172 mi by 57,500 mi. ''(AFSC Release 20-67)'' March 1967 March Mar 1 1967 1 Mar 2 1967 2 Mar 3 1967 3 ...

... . ''(UPI, NYT, 11/4/73, 77)'' November 3-13: NASA'S Mariner 10 (Mariner-J) Venus-Mercury probe was launched into a parking orbit from Eastern Test Range at 12:45 am ... tilted from the spin axis. Pioneer 10 crossed the orbits of Jupiter's innermost moons-Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, and Io-Dec. 2-3. As it came within 446 000 km (277 000 ... 10 was expected to continue collecting and returning data until it reached the orbit of Uranus in 1980, almost 3 200 000 000 km (2 000 000 000 mi) from the earth ...

... Category:Skylab 3 video July 28-September 25 The Skylab 3 Apollo spacecraft carrying a three-man crew was launched into near-earth orbit, rendezvoused with the Skylab 1 Orbital Workshop (launched May 14 ... performed Aug. 6. Garriott and Lousma stepped outside the orbiting laboratory at 1:30 pm EDT to install the 3.6- by 7.3-m (12- by 24-ft), paper-thin, aluminized Mylar ... be quarantined for one week. The Skylab 3 mission achieved its primary objectives of performing unmanned Saturn Workshop operations, reactivating the Skylab orbital assembly in earth orbit, obtaining medical data for use in ...

... reliability of 100% in 135 orbital or deep space vehicle launchings over the last three years was reported in Space Business Daily. ''(SBD, 2/3/64, 175)'' February 3-5: At aerospace medicine conference held at Brooks AFB, NASA Langley Research Center assistant director, Clinton E. Brown, said NASA was proposing a large space telescope in earth orbit capable of orbiting ...

... ; and inclina­tion, 93.8°. Primary NASA mission objectives were to place Aurorae into planned orbit and provide tracking and telemetry support. The 185-lb cylindrical satellite carried eight experiments to ... May 16 to replace ESRO II-A which had failed to achieve orbit May 29, 1967, had entered planned orbit and conducted solar-astronomy and cosmic-ray studies. ESRO was responsible for ... predicting temperatures in full-size earth-orbiting station. ''(Boeing Release S-9840)'' October 1968 October Oct 1 1968 1 Oct 2 1968 2 Oct 3 1968 3 Oct 4 1968 4 Oct 5 ...

... News for this day. (2MB PDF) Orbiting Solar Observatory II OSO II ( Orbiting Solar Observatory B OSO B2 ), NASA's Orbiting Solar Observatory , was successfully launched into orbit from Cape Kennedy by a three-stage Delta rocket Preliminary orbital elements: apogee. 393 ... /65, 12)'' February 1965 February Feb 1 1965 1 Feb 2 1965 2 Feb 3 1965 3 Feb 4 1965 4 Feb 5 1965 5 Feb 6 1965 6 Feb 7 1965 ...

... COSMOS LXXVII , 13th Soviet spacecraft orbited in the last two months, Initial orbital data: apogee, 300 km. (187 mi.); perigee, 184 km. (114 mi,) ; period, 89.3 min,; inclination to the equator, 51 ... payloads of almost 20 tons into orbit around the earth-the seventh Saturn launch September 18, 1964, orbiting a 39,200-lb, payload. ''(Ward, Huntsville Times, 8/3/65)'' House Committee on Science ...

... of free iron." ''(Science, 11/3/67,631-52)'' Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced U.S.S.R.'s possible development of a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System see Oct. 16 ... apogee of 800 mi, FOBS, he said, was fired into a very low orbit, and before first orbit was completed, rocket engine would slow down payload and cause it to drop out ... warning radars (including BMEWS) could not detect FOBS "because of the low altitude of FOBS orbits," McNamara said: ". . . already we are beginning to use operationally over-the-horizon radars which possess ...

... Satellite ESSA ) by NASA with three-stage Thor-Delta booster into nearly polar, sun-synchronous orbit to provide cloud coverage of entire sunlit portion of the earth at least once daily ... ESSA I was spin-stabilized at 10 rpm with spin axis in plane of orbit. Entering second orbit, spacecraft responded to ground control command to begin turning on its side into cartwheel ... ESSA I ( Television Infrared Observation Satellite TIROS OT-3) meteorological satellite brought total of objects currently in orbit to 1,000. Of 209 earth-orbiting payloads, U.S. had 162; U.S.S ...

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