Nov 25 1967
From The Space Library
Spectrometer aboard NASA's OSO IV, launched Oct. 18, had obtained spectral data providing complete picture of corona over whole face of solar disc, Harvard College Observatory Director Professor Leo Goldberg said. Primary purpose of satellite, to obtain high-resolution spectral data, had been achieved. Goldberg said that 4,000 uv photos of the sun, made above earth's atmosphere, would provide three-dimensional information on sun's structure, temperature, and density, and on how they vary with height. Previously, scientists could study solar flares only by observing them at the sun's rim during eclipse. Goldberg said interpretation of uv photos, still being-transmitted to earth, should also be related to unsolved problems about sun's chemical composition and in turn to theories of sun's origin and evolution. (Weily W Post, 11/26/67, A6; AP, W Star, 11/26/67, A17)
U.S.S.R. successfully launched Cosmos CXCIII. Orbital parameters : apogee, 354 km (220 mi); perigee, 203 km (127 mi); period, 89.9 min; inclination, 65.7°. Satellite reentered Dec. 3. (AP, NYT, 11/26/67, 46; GSFC SSR, 12/15/67)
National Policy Panel of U.N. Assn. of the U.S.A. published report "Stopping the Spread of Atomic Weapons." Report favored proposed treaty ending spread of nuclear weapons, urged US. to open its peaceful nuclear reactors to inspection by IAEA, recommended specific international facilities and arrangements for handling explosions for peaceful purposes, asked for a fairer balance between nuclear and non nuclear nations, and called for inclusion of U.N. guarantee (based on US. and U.S.S.R. power) against "nuclear blackmail." Panel report's "underlying theme" was that some nations might refuse to sign if the two major powers avoided treaty terms designed to meet concern of non nuclear states that "special units be created with International Atomic Energy Agency to assure that technical, industrial innovations in civilian nuclear energy be made available on a pooled, non-discriminatory basis." (Finney, NYT, 11/26/67,12; Marder, W Post, 11/26/67,1)
Dr. Jack E. Froehlich, 46-year-old scientist and rocket pioneer, was drowned with his nine-year-old son, Mark, in a boating accident. He had been president of National Engineering Science Co. and, during 1959, had been at JPL as a project manager for EXPLORER I. (Pasadena Star-News, 13/27/67)
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