Dec 28 1970
From The Space Library
NASA held press briefing on preliminary results of Uhuru (Explorer XLII) Small Astronomy Satellite (launched Dec. 12). Mrs. Marjorie R. Townsend, SAS-A Project Manager at GSFC, said launch went smoothly and only few minor anomalies had occurred so far: "We are running at higher temperatures than we anticipated seeing at specific angles with respect to the sun. . . .Because of this it took us longer to despin than we had anticipated. The despin dumps a lot of excess [heat] into the spacecraft so we had to turn it on for a while and then turn it off. . .until we did get it into nominal operation. As of this morning SAS-A is working perfectly." (Transcript)
Crippled flight of Apollo 13 had been chosen top story of 1970 by AP member editors, AP announced. (W Star, 12/28/70)
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