Jun 16 1967
From The Space Library
USSR. launched Cosmos CLXVI into orbit with 578-km (359-mi) apogee; 283-km (175-mi) perigee; 92.9-min period; and 48.4° inclination. Instruments performed satisfactorily. Satellite reentered Oct. 25. (UPI, W News, 6/16/67; GSFC SSR, 10/31/67)
USAF launched two unidentified satellites with a Thor-Agena D booster from WTR; one satellite reentered July 20. (AP, KC Times, 6/17/67; Pres Rep 1967)
NASA, in cooperation with West Germany's Ministry for Scientific Research (BMWF) and Brazilian Space Activities Commission (CNAE) , successfully launched an Argo D-4 (Javelin) sounding rocket from Barreira do Inferno range near Natal, Brazil, on ballistic trajectory through Van Allen radiation belts to 650-mi (1,000-km) altitude. Purpose of mission was to flight-test instruments being developed for West German research satellite, scheduled for launch in 1969 to investigate earth's radiation belts. Several German organizations provided scientific experiments; CNAE provided range and launching services; NASA provided sounding rocket, downrange telemetry, and radar. (WS Release 67-23)
NASA had completed post-launch evaluation of ESSA V meteorological satellite and adjudged the mission a success. Launched by NASA from WTR April 20, satellite had been turned over to ESSA for operation May 8. (NASA Project Off.)
NASA and Boeing Co. signed a $20-million letter contract extending the scope of Boeing's work with NASA to include integration of Apollo spacecraft's three modules with Saturn V launch vehicle [see May 9]. Boeing would: (1) assist and support NASA and its three manned spaceflight centers-MSC, MSFC, and KSC-in performance of certain technical tasks for Apollo missions AS-501 through AS-515; and (2) be responsible for supporting Apollo Program Office in integrating Saturn V booster with Apollo Command Module (CM) , Service Module (SM) , and Lunar Module (LM) . Work would be performed under overall direction of OMSF Apollo Program Office. Boeing Co.'s currently contracted Saturn work included engineering, construction, and testing of Saturn V 1st stage; support of assembly and system integration of Saturn V 2nd and 3rd stages with the 1st; and design engineering support of certain ground support equipment at KSC. (NASA Release 67-161)
NASA approved Phase II of a Dec. 14,1966, contract and awarded Goodyear Aerospace Corp. $650,000 to design, fabricate, and test a full-scale model of a 30-ft-dia parabolic antenna. Antenna, planned as part of experimental package on proposed second-generation Applications Technology Satellites (ATS F and G), would be used for advanced communications research. (GSFC Release G32-67)
The use of ammonia as a fuel for central power plants, turbine-driven buses, trucks, and trains, and possibly private cars, would solve the problem of air and water pollution, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. executive Leon Green, Jr., wrote in Science. He suggested that fossil fuels such as gasoline, oil, coal, and natural gas be converted into ammonia rather than burned directly. Heat for the conversion could be provided by nuclear power plants. The economic feasibility of the process would depend on "the economic value of the byproducts of sulfur, carbon dioxide, water and possibly nitrogen," Green said, "and upon the price we are willing to pay for a clean environment." (Green, Science, 6/16/67, 144s50; AP, NYT, 6/17/67, 15)
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