Oct 24 1974
From The Space Library
The U.S.S.R. launched Molniya I-28 communications satellite from Plesetsk into orbit with 39 707-km apogee, 645-km perigee, 717.7-min period, and 62.8° inclination. Tass reported that the satellite carried equipment to relay TV programs and to establish remote multichannel radio communications. (GSFC Wkly SSR, 24-30 Oct 74; Av Wk, 4 Nov 74, 13; Tass, FBIS-Sov, 25 Oct 74, U1)
U.S.S.R. flight controllers for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project began two weeks training at Johnson Space Center in preparation for the July 1975 mission. Some 20 Soviet controllers attended sessions on Apollo trajectory, spacecraft systems and communications, docking module, Mission Control Center operations, and contingency flight planning. (JSC Release 74-264; NASA Release 74-284; JSC Roundup, 8 Nov 74)
The Air Force successfully test-fired an intercontinental Minuteman I missile dropped from a C-5A transport aircraft flying 6100 m above the Pacific Ocean. The first successful air-drop firing followed drops of two inert missiles in a step toward development of an ICBM with mobility in the air and on land. (Finney, NYT, 26 Oct 74; Aerospace Daily, 29 Oct 74)
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