Nov 9 1979
From The Space Library
NASA reported that JPL had awarded a 16-month $1.2 million contract to General Electric's Space Division for three dish-shaped prototype units 12 meters (40 feet) in diameter with a sun-tracking mechanism, able to produce solar energy for electric power to small communities and rural areas. JPL acted for DOE in the second phase of a program to develop a point focusing solar concentrator that would give best thermal performance for the lowest cost. (NASA Release 79-149)
NASA reported that LaRC had developed a microwave device under test at Norfolk General Hospital to destroy cancerous tissue by heating tumor cells. Used outside the body and emitting no radiation, the device had already demonstrated that it could locate tumors in 14 known cancer patients and in one patient had found a cancerous site undiscovered by conventional means. The applicator could sense cancerous tissues, hotter than normal tissue, much deeper in the body than could infrared thermography, limited to finding tumors near the body surface. (NASA Release 79-150)
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