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... payload to 88-mi (141-km) altitude to collect for analysis meteoritic debris during the peak of meteor shower. Three deployable module support arms held four module trays each, to entrap ... enough with its gas supply to permit it to continue for one year at the peak of its investigative capabilities. Achievement of one-year performance would enable satellite to gather data on earth, its upper atmosphere, and its near-space environment during period of peak solar activity, which occurs every 11 yrs. Ogo IV's gas system, used to supply ...

... than 10 km., 13% had central peaks. This compared favorably with the frequency (11.7%) of central peaks among lunar craters and may indicate the peaks resulted from the impact mechanism rather than ...

... performing as planned. Upper stages were filled with water simulating weight of live stages. At peak altitude, rocket was detonated by radio command and the ballast water was released into the ... , believe they have confirmed the theory of Henry Morozumi, Stanford Univ. scientist, when they found peaks of auroral display and VLF hiss were identical in intensity and coincided repeatedly. Helms said ...

... John W. Kaufman, Dennis W. Camp, and Robert E. Turner of "maxometer" that could record peak hurricane velocities of more than 320 km per hr (200 mph), was described in Marshall ... severe-environment sensor that could withstand extreme temperatures of Saturn rocket engine exhausts and acquire peak exhaust-gas-flow speeds during launch. Other version was ambient environment sensor for recording ...

... of 1500 positions, lowering employment to 28 350-total reduction of 6971 positions from 1967 peak and lowest level since 1963. Cut of "some 20 percent in the 1967-72 period ... portion serving NASA, has passed through a substantial perturbation. Contractor employment climbed to a high peak, then dropped drastically. The current estimate for industry employment on NASA work at the end ... next is about 108,000- less than one-third of what it was at the peak of the space program. But with the major reductions in the space program over the ...

... than 100 000 employees in 12 000 companies across the U.S. worked during the peak of developing the Saturn family and its 31 launches with 100% launch success rate. MARSHALL ... store energy for electric utility companies; the flywheels, spun up during off-peak hours, would drive power producing generators during peak-demand periods, (Rockwell Int'l Release SP-18) NASA announced award ...

... probably wouldn’t call a mountain, but it’s a very high hill with a peak and the site’s right at the top. Right at the base of it that you’d drive by on the way to this peak are some Atlas launch pads. In those days we used to drive by the Atlas launch pads on the way up to the peak. In later years we didn’t need a tracking site at Arguello anymore, so that ...

... center kind of come up and you get these central peaks in a lot of the craters. Tycho has a central peak. Some of the images that have come out of the ... . It wasn’t available then obviously. But it is spectacular. So in these central uplift peaks, you can see what looks like layers, and that would be probably the only place ...

... , Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Tim Peake launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:03 a.m. (5:03 p ... fields including biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development. Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake will remain aboard the station until early June 2016. Kelly and Kornienko will return to ...

... Augmen­tation System (ASAS), to evaluate basic stability of the aircraft during re-entry. At peak of flight the X-15 's altimeter, air speed, and rate-of­-climb instruments failed ... peninsula, releasing sodium vapor clouds used to study high-altitude conditions. The Nike-Apache 's peak altitude was estimated at 106 mi. The Physical Re­search Laboratory of Ahmedabad provided the ...

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