Oct 14 1971
From The Space Library
USAF launched unidentified satellite into orbit from Vandenberg AFB by Thor-Burner II booster. Satellite achieved 878.7-km (546-mi) apogee, 795.0-km (494-mi) perigee, 101.6-min period, and 98.9° inclination. (Pres Rpt 72; SF, 4/72, 132)
U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos 452 from Plesetsk into orbit with 280-km (174-mi) apogee, 175-km (108.7-mi) perigee, 89-min period, and 64.9° inclination. Satellite reentered Oct. 27. (GSFC SSR, 10/31/71; SF, 4/72, 132)
NASA successfully completed 17th and 18th flights of TF-8A aircraft with supercritical wing, flown from FRC by NASA test pilots Thomas C. McMurtry and Garry Krier, and announced results in accelerated program to evaluate TF-8A performance in advance of adverse landing conditions. All flight objectives had been achieved in series to expand flight envelope to higher dynamic pressures, obtain pressure distribution and performance data at higher dynamic pressure, evaluate unaugmented stability and control characteristics, and investigate buffet boundary for trim flight at mach 0.99 design conditions at 14 000 m (46 000 ft) Pressure distribution and performance data had been obtained over mach 0.80 to 1.00 at altitudes to 14 000 m. Unaugmented stability and control characteristics had been evaluated from mach 0.70 to 0.99 at 10 700 m (35 000 ft). Buffeting had neared that predicted from wind-tunnel tests and buffet boundary had been penetrated to 22° attack angle. Buffeting had been "intense but not severe." (NASA Proj Off)
FAA award of $229 746 planning grant-offer to New Jersey Dept. of Transportation for master plan of V/STOL port to serve New York metropolitan and northern New Jersey areas was announced by FAA Administrator John H. Shaffer. (FAA Release 71-168)
Plans for establishment of International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis by U.S., U.S.S.R., U.K., France, Italy, Poland, and East and West Germany were described in New York Times by Walter Sullivan: Project, "fruit of four years of private Soviet-American negotiations" had culminated in eight-nation conference in Paris. Prominent among principals had been NAS President, Dr. Philip Handler, and Dzherman M. Gvishiani, Soviet specialist in American management techniques. (NYT, 10/14/71, 1)
Assembly of solar radio telescope 10 m (33 ft) in diameter was nearing completion at Baldone, Latvia, Riga Sovetskaya Latviaa reported. Parabolic antenna would enable Latvian Academy of Sciences Radio-astrophysical Observatory scientists to study all fluctuations of sun's radiowaves. (FBIS-Sov-70, 10/22/71, I.4)
Wall Street Journal editorial commented on KSC economy drive: "One of the first things that occurs to householders when a money pinch comes is to turn off all the unneeded lights to save money on electricity." This had occurred to KSC officials who "came up with a real enough saving, an estimated $75 000 a year." KSC parking lots and some buildings were "a little dimmer but everything continues to function." (WSJ, 10/14/71)
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