Aug 23 1970
From The Space Library
Canadian Ministry of Transport had reported almost flawless operation during 1970 of radar system linking balloons 30 500 m (100000 ft) above Pacific with spherical tracker on weather ship Vancouver, New York Times said. Since 1967 Vancouver and sister ship Quadra had alternated seven-week patrols at Ocean Station Papa, 1545 (960 mi) west of Vancouver, B.C., to collect data on upper-air conditions and provide meteorological, navigational, and oceanographic information for jet aircraft and surface vessels. System, developed by Sperry Rand Corp.'s Sperry Gyroscope Div., was shipborne version of that used by USN at PMR. (NYT, 8/23/70, 74)
Harry Schwartz commented in New York Times on Aug. 17 launch of Venus VII by U.S.S.R.: "Some of the space age's richest scientific dividends have been the surprising findings of Soviet and American instrument-carrying rockets sent to Venus in the past decade. The excitement generated by this new information explains the widespread approval from the world's scientific community of the news last week that Moscow had launched still another unmanned spaceship toward Earth's nearest planetary neighbor." (NYT, 8/23/70, 4:5)
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