Aug 20 1991
From The Space Library
The media covered the destruction after launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Aries rocket carrying secret Pentagon experiments for Star Wars. The rocket went out of control soon after liftoff and had to be destroyed. (AP, Aug 20/91; UPI, Aug 20/91; NY Times, Aug 21/91; WSJ, Aug 21/91; W Post, Aug 21/91; USA Today, Aug 21/91; P Inq, Aug 21/91; W Times, Aug 21/91; B Sun, Aug 21/91; C Trib, Aug 21/91; LA Times, Aug 21/91)
NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) Experiments Program Manager Dean Olmstead expressed NASA's pleasure that the U.S. Army had joined NASA to conduct various ACTS experiments. AC I S forms the center of NASA's satellite communications research and development efforts. (PR Newswire, Aug 20/91)
NASA announced that researchers from its Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, would use satellite and air-home instruments to measure the surface elevation of polar glaciers. The program was designed to aid scientists in determining ice buildup or melting resulting from global climate change. The program is to occur in Greenland between August 23 and September 16. (NASA Release 91-133)
NASA announced that its Joint Program Office, consisting of NASA and the Department of Defense, was sponsoring a competition for the Nation's undergraduate engineering schools to design and build a mock-up of the X-30 National Aerospace Plane. (NASA Release 91-134)
NASA announced that, subsequent to the failure of its attempt the preceding week to release the antenna of spacecraft Galileo, it would try again in December 1991 when Galileo would be farther from the sun and thus cooler. (NASA Release 91-135; AP, Aug 20/91; LA Times, Aug 21/91; UPI, Aug 21/91; CSM, Aug 22/91; Htsvl Tms, Aug 28/91)
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