Jun 22 1966
From The Space Library
U.S. and U.S.S.R.-which had submitted to U.N. (June 16) similar drafts for a treaty banning military use of celestial bodies-agreed to meeting of legal experts of Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Geneva July 12 to arrange compromise between drafts. U.S.S.R. had originally asked that proposals be included in agenda of 21st session of U.N. General Assembly, which would open Sept. 20. (Daniell, NYT, 6/23/66, 1)
Two Nike-Cajun sounding rocket launches, from Point Barrow, Alaska, and Churchill Research Range, were coordinated in GSFC experiment to obtain atmospheric data as time of summer maximum for noctilucent cloud sightings approached. Rockets and instrumentation functioned satisfactorily. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
Design requirements for second-generation, recoverable-reusable booster and spacecraft systems, outlined by NASC staff member Dr. Eugene B. Konecci at American Astronautical Society meeting in Wayne, N.J., included: new propulsion capability; materials, structures, and subsystems suitable for reuse; and system designed for "full use of the human factor capabilities in the control loop, . . . minimum (limited) ground support participation, and for easy maintenance and repair." (Text)
President Charles de Gaulle, speaking at Moscow State Univ., suggested that France and the U.S.S.R. should work toward a "new alliance" for scientific and other intellectual pursuits. He said that "culture, science, and progress justify national ambitions in our epoch in place of former dreams of conquest and domination." (Grose, NYT, 6/23/66, 1)
Generator-burner assembly of the LORHO pilot facility was successfully run at full power at Arnold Engineering Development Center, marking. first application of magneto hydrodynamic principles in achieving high velocity flow in a ground environmental test facility. (AEDC)
ComSatCorp denied ITT World Communications, Inc.'s accusation of "unjustly and unreasonably" discriminating against ITT in quoting charges to Defense Communications Agency (DCA) for 30 satellite circuits between Hawaii and Japan, the Philippines and Thailand: "The rate quoted to the DCA for each of the. . . circuits is, in fact, higher than the rate quoted to the carriers, as it takes into account the additional service costs by Comsat to carry out a responsibility to provide end-to-end service to DCA. . . . ITT Worldcom may have been confused by advance knowledge as to the Corporation's planned tariff for satellite channels to be furnished to authorized common carriers, in which the $48,000 charge to the carriers would be revised downward to $45,000 [and] erroneously assumed that this lower charge, which would apply only to authorized common carriers, had been quoted by Comsat to the DCA." (ComSatCorp Release)
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