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... New York Times reported September 2 that, as of 12:31 p.m. EDT September 1, Pioneer 11 had survived a hail of fine particles to get within 13,000 miles of ... that signals from a recently launched Soviet satellite might interfere with reception of Pioneer data, being "between 100 and 1,000 times stronger than the signals we were receiving from our spacecraft ... said September 6 that the three Soviet satellites that had stopped transmitting September 1-2 for the benefit of Pioneer's Saturn flyby were early-warning satellites designed to detect U.S ...

... )'' NASA's Pioneer 10 Jupiter probe (launched March 2) was 320 million km (200 million mi) from earth and had traveled 450 million km (280 million mi) on 1-billion-km (620 ... had encountered no problems. ''(NASA Release 72-184)'' NASA announced that Pioneer 7 flight directors had located and revived Pioneer 7 after one month of radio silence. Spacecraft was on far side ... for finding and reviving spacecraft that had turned itself off. Scientists had theorized that at Pioneer 7 's farthest distance from sun electrical power from spacecraft's solar cells had fallen ...

... cosmic rays. OAO 1 (launched Dec. 7, 1968) and OAO 3 (launched Aug. 21, 1972) had returned a wealth of information on the Milky Way and more distant galaxies. Pioneer 10 (launched ... yrs of flight, studied effects of hypersonic flight on aircraft skin friction and thermal expansion, pioneered the use of ablative coatings, aided efficient structural design, and served as a workhorse test ... November, was expected to provide the first photos of Mercury. Pioneer 10 was headed for a year-end rendezvous with Jupiter, and Pioneer 11 (launched April 5, 1973) was scheduled for a ...

... the establishment of a space station for astronomical observations and an orbiting space telescope. ref 1 But despite these truly revolutionary concepts, Oberth's 80 + page work was replete with ... the popular scientific press about Oberth and the American rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard than about the work of Russia's own pioneer of the theory of spaceflight by rocket propulsion, Konstantin ...

... the Magi or star of Bethlehem. (W Star, Dec 1/80, A-2) ARC announced plans to mark the second anniversary of Pioneer Venus's orbiter when it would complete two Earth ... at Venus from a variety of new vantage points. Since its arrival December 4, 1978, Pioneer had made 730 24-hour orbits and returned more than a thousand UV pictures of ... and surface, interior, and surrounding environment. During the first two years, Earth commands had kept Pioneer in a fixed position; from now on it would "float" in response to pressures of ...

... Phoebe site. Soviet mission planners had consulted scientists and radar maps from the U.S. Pioneer Venus project in deciding where to aim the Veneras; they promised to share Venera data ... the Viking spacecraft Viking s had on Mars. Pioneer Venus I had been orbiting Venus since December 1978, mapping the planet by radar. Pioneer Venus 2 deployed five probes to sample the ... and the ground. Commander would be Paul J. Weitz , 49, who was pilot on Skylab 1 ; copilot would be U.S. Air Force Col. Karol J. Bobko , 44, another rookie. Donald ...

... N. H. LANGTON. 92 - HERMANN GANSWINDT. THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE GERMAN PIONEER WHO WAS ALMOST THE FIRST TO REALIZE THE POTENTIALITIES OF THE ROCKET IN ... 1957''' GEOFFREY TURNER 151 - CARTOONIST'S CORNER 152 - CORRESPONDENCE 153 - REVIEWS 154 - - '''Volume 1 Number 5''' '''OCTOBER 1957''' - EDITORIAL 158 - THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL FEDERATION An account ...

... science fiction fandom honored Willy Ley as a person of excellence. ---- Willy Ley – Berliner, Rocket Pioneer, Space Historian by Dr. Wolfgang Both , Berlin "Ideas, like large Rivers, never have just ... publicity from the rocket car experiments by Opel, Valier and Sander. A basic stock of 1,000 Reichsmark had been saved through contributions and donations. While Willy Ley revised the ...

... the organization now has annual budget of $22,600,000 and 4,500 total personnel (1,617 scientists, engineers, and techni­cians.) During year just completed, Aerospace Corp. provided guidance on $1 billion in space systems contracts and $3 billion in ballistic missiles and components. ''(Aerospace Corp. Release; NYT, 8/4/63)'' First technical description of U.A.R.'s Pioneer rocket appeared in Cairo newspaper Akher Saa. Article said Pioneer multistage rocket has range of 625 mi., is powered with liquid ...

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