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Image:Nimbus.jpg 200px Image:Nimbus_(2).jpg 200px Nimbus 1 satellite Category:Spacecraft

... as prime contractor for associated systems, integration, and testing. Nimbus E and F would be similar in structural design to previous Nimbus spacecraft and would each carry 10 experiments, with launch ... Rocketdyne Div. had received $22 841 941 contract for Saturn engine support work between July 1, 1970, and June 30, 1971. ''( Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Release 70-134)'' Senate ...

... had transmitted 22 952 pictures during 89-day lifetime. Since Tiros 1, 23 meteorological satellites - 10 Tiros, 3 Nimbus, 9 ESSA, and 1 ITOS - had been orbited, returning more than one million pictures ... had ended prematurely when Monique, first elk fitted with collar, died of pneumonia Feb. 24. Nimbus III, orbiting at 1100-km (700-mi) altitude, successfully contacted second elk four times over ...

... announced it was purchasing 11 ground sta­tions capable of receiving cloud pictures directly from Nimbus meteorological satellites, to be launched by NASA beginning late this year. The Stations would receive ... every 208 Sec., each photograph showing area of about 1,000-mi.-by-1,000-mi. Meteorologists expected to make immediate use of Nimbus cloud pictures. ''(Dept, of Com­merce Release WB 63 ... established using rockets, equipment, and materials under development now for Project Apollo . Plan called for (1) orbiting Space station with capacity for 18 crewmen; (2) sending six men in adapted Apollo ...

... Administrator for Aeronautics and Space Technology Roy P. Jackson. ''(NASA Release 72 44)'' Nimbus 4 meteorological satellite (launched by NASA April 8, 1970) was continuing to gather data ... 's Engineering and Development Directorate's Laboratory Operations. Appointments would be effective April 1. ''(MSC Release 72-50)'' Atomic Energy Commission published Global Inventory and Distribution of ...

... Noaa 2, in conjunction with the continuation of the experimental program through the launch of Nimbus 5 in December, "bodes well for continued progress in meteorology." New efforts in earth observations ... sounding rocket from Churchill Research Range , Canada, carrying a Univ. of Pittsburgh payload to 135.1-km (84-mi) altitude. The primary objective was to confirm an initial observation of ...

... would be launched from WTR--four TOS spacecraft ''(launched for ESSA)'', OGO-F, GEOS-B, Nimbus-B, IMP-G, Radio Astronomy Explorer-A, and International Satellite for Ionospheric Studies ''(joint ... free world economy, and thereby threaten our unprecedented prosperity at home." ''(Harwood, W Post, 1/2/68, 1)'' Membership of NASA Historical Advisory Committee was designated for 1968-1969: Dr. Melvin ...

... one and one half times, during which her physical reactions would be relayed via Nimbus 4 satellite to ground station at Fairbanks, Alaska, and then to Goddard Space Flight ... pioneering vehicles completely revolutionized scientists' views of the Martian terrain and environment." ''(NYT, 6/1/71)'' NASA issued Management Instruction continuing NASA Historical Advisory Committee to advise and assist ...

... convinced NASA that its multimillion-dollar spectrometer was off by about 1.7 percent. NASA's 14-year-old spectrometer, the Nimbus-7 , apparently had drifted slightly in its orbit. It was ... it was replaced, NASA scientists would have to compensate for the error. (Texas Monthly, Mar 1/93) Government Computer News reported that NASA had designated Laurie A. Broedling, an Associate Administrator ...

... International Code would designate all orbiting artificial satellites and space probes with Arabic numerals (1963-1, 1963-2, etc.) rather than Greek letters (1963 Alpha, 1963 Beta., etc.), National Academy of ... . Newly created Space Sciences Div. would direct scientific aspects of the project. ''(San Jose News, 1/1/63)'' Walter C. Williams and J. C. Elms assumed duties as deputy directors of NASA ...

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