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... Spacecraft Name = '''''Palapa-B2'''''
Image = Image:Palapa_B-2_STS-51-A.jpg 200px Organization = Unknown (Indonesia),Unknown (United States) Major_Contractors = Mission_Type = Communications Satellite_Of = Launch = Start date 1984 2 3 Launch ... /nmc/experimentSearch.do?spacecraft=Palapa-B2 Here Telecommunications Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=Palapa-B2 Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle Palapa-B2, a communications satellite launched from ...

... 1976, 16 from Cape Canaveral and 2 from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base . First of these, on 13 Jan., would be a U.S.-Canadian Communications Technology Satellite ... year would include 2 comsats for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 2 maritime comsats (Marisats); Palapa , a comsat for the Indonesian government; the second Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-B); and Lageos, a laser geodynamic ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Dale A. Gardner header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Nov 8 1948 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... two satellites, Canada's ANIK D-2 (TELESAT-H) and the Hughes' Leasat F1 (SYNCOM IV-1), now in service with the U.S. Navy. In a dramatic salvage effort, they also rendezvoused with and returned from space two satellites previously launched into improper orbits, the Indonesian PALAPA B-2 and the Western Union WESTAR ...

... agencies "are engaged or have a direct interest in the seas... ." ''(CR, 2/2/65, 1754-57)'' R. E. Clarson. Inc., of St. Petersburg, Fla., was awarded a $2,179,000 contract for alterations to Launch Complex 34 , Cape Kennedy , to accommodate the Saturn IB rocket, Army Corps of Engineers made the award. ''(AP, Miami Her., 2/3/65 ... ,000 mi. in the Pacific southwest of Hawaii. ''(UPI, Wash, Daily News, 2/2/65; UPI, Wash. Post, 2/3/65)'' A brightly illuminated object in the sky near Langley AFB, Va., was widely ...

... . Fletcher , Administrator of NASA, in announcing the new plan. (W1 Post, 2 July 76, A-2; W Star, 2 July 76, A-8) A NY Times editorial mentioned "super technology" in the taking and transmitting of ... of an area west of the previously selected landing point. (W Post, 8 July 76, A-2) An altered orbit put Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 over an area called Plateau of ... the plateau to be "twice as smooth as the plains." (W Post, 7 July 76, A-2) A JPL spokesman said preliminary pictures of another landing site proposed for Viking spacecraft 1 Viking ...

... presence of life on Mars until results from Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 were in. Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 was on its way to a landing scheduled for 3 Septa on Utopia Planitia (the ... food, water, or air needed to survive. (Thomas O'Toole, W Post, 3 Sept 76, A-2) Marshall Space Flight Center announced that the Space Div. of Rockwell Intl. Corp. at Palmdale ... better resources assessment and management, NOAA said. On 19 July, Landsat-1 had passed over a selected study area, sending multispectral scanner data to Goddard Space Flight Center ; the data tapes ...

... , it had had to wait until the next fiscal year for approval. (W Post, Dec 2/77, A-2) Dryden Flight Research Center reported that Ralph "Buzz" Sawyer of its flight systems laboratory had made a "paper airplane" to test a theory of reducing elevator flutter and had come up with a ... , Dec 2/77, 4) DFRC reported it had made further study of the effect of insects sticking to the leading edges of aircraft wings see A&A76, Nov. 23 by flying a small ...

Wire services reported that an explosion that damaged a Space Shuttle engine during test firing at Bay St. Louis, Miss., on December 27 might ... . Further tests would await determining the cause of the accident-apparently failure of a valve in a high-pressure pump feeding oxygen to a combustion chamber. The engine had completed 255 seconds of ... not entirely successful." (NY Times, Jan 2/79 UPI , A-13; W Post, Jan 4/79 AP , A-2) 1979 January 1979 January Jan 1 1979 1 Jan 2 1979 2 Jan 3 1979 3 Jan ...

... Solar Challenger , Dr. Paul MacCready's lightweight high-strength plastic-and-balsa craft driven by a 2.75-hp motor, took off December 3 about 1:00 p.m. from an airport ... . and European Spacelab mission and payload specialists to give them a better idea of the scientific objectives and let them operate 2 of the 11 French experiments. The first Spacelab payload would be launched in June 1983. PICPAB (phenomena induced by charged-particle beams), a plasma-physics experiment under ...

... $250,000 to make the telescope useful into the 21st century. (LA Times, Aug 2/93) A Titan 4 rocket carrying an expensive military spy satellite system exploded minutes after liftoff from ... Force Base . This, the first failure of the four-year-old Titan 4 program, was a $2-billion accident, said John Pike, director of the space policy project at the Federation of ... Satellite System ( TDRSS ). The system consists of several satellites plus a ground station at White Sands, New Mexico. (Onset Magazine, Aug 2/93) July 1993 July August 1993 August Aug 1 1993 ...

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