Aug 1 1974
From The Space Library
President Nixon transmitted World Weather Program, Plan for Fiscal Year 1975 to Congress. The plan outlined 1975 U.S. participation in the program seeking to give man "the understanding, tools and techniques necessary to cope with his atmosphere." Goals were to extend the time, range, and scope of weather predictions; assess the impact of atmospheric pollution on environment; study the feasibility and con-sequences of weather modification; and encourage international cooperation in meeting meteorological needs. He said the U.S. would soon begin continuous viewing of storms over much of the earth's surface with two geostationary satellites and that five more such satellites would be made operational in cooperation with other nations. (PD, 5 Aug 74, 1001)
A 6.4-cm underwater borehole TV camera to provide geologists views of the earth's interior layers had been developed from Skylab technology, Marshall Space Flight Center announced. The camera, designed for Tom by Sperry Support Services of Alabama, would permit geologists to study geological formations from the interior of a 7.6-cm-dia survey borehole drilled to a depth of 490 m. Images received by the remotely controlled camera would be transmitted along an armored cable to a standard vidicon receiving tube on the surface. (MSFC Release 74-138)
A digital computing cardiotachometer developed for monitoring beat-to-beat heart rates of astronauts training underwater was being used in two Birmingham, Ala., hospitals, Marshall Space Flight Center announced. The device, designed to operate with a standard electrocardiographic unit, employed an electronic digital system to use the time between two consecutive heart beats to calculate the patient's pulse rate. A numerical display showed the subject's pulse rate 0.3 sec after detecting his second heart beat. (MSFC Release 74-140)
"Magnetic domain bubbles" being tested as computer memory devices could do mass memory jobs faster, cheaper, and more reliably than conventional devices and could store information for many years for long space journeys, the Air Force Systems Command reported. Dr. Millar Mier of AFSC believed the minute bubbles-densely packed in very thin, magnetic garnet material-would replace tape recorders and computer disc and drum memories in aircraft and spacecraft within a few years. The solid-state bubble bits of information were resistant to radiation and would remain stable during vehicle reentry into the atmosphere or operation in the Van Allen belts. A 10 000-bit test module delivered to the Air Force Avionics Laboratory in May was undergoing tests. (AFSC Release OIP 138.74)
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