Mar 9 1963

From The Space Library

JPL released radioastronomy sky survey by Per Maltby, T. A. Mathews, and Alan T. Moffet, which mapped location and outlines of gas clouds 13 million to 5 billion light years from earth. Strongest of 24 radio sources having energy output equal to 20 billion suns (40 billion billion billion billion watts), were usually twin stars with immense but invisible gas clouds between them. "It seems likely," JPL said, "that the radio clouds are com­ posed of material effected from the parent galaxy." (Wash. Post, 3/10/63,1)

Two NASA Nike-Cajun sounding rockets with grenade experiments to measure winds and temperatures and derive density and pres­sures at altitude were launched almost simultaneous]. , one from Wallops Island and the other from Ft. Churchill. (NASA Rpts. of Sounding Rkt. Launching)

In article on lasers in Pravda, V. Vyenikov wrote that "an auxiliary optical system can focus the laser beam in such a way that the diameter of its cross-section reaches values of 1 micron. This is approximately 60 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. A similar beam, directed toward the Moon, illuminated on its surface a region less than 4 kilometers. This experiment proves that theoretically it is possible to transmit energy from Earth to future participants of lunar expeditions." (Krasnaya Zvezda, 3/9/63, AFSS-T Trans.)

USAF Atlas ICBM exploded shortly after launch from Van­denberg AFB. Cause of explosion was not announced. (DOD Re­lease 341-63; UPI, Wash. Post, 3/10/63)

Mar 10 1963