Jun 3 1964
From The Space Library
NASA launched Nike-Apache sounding rocket from Wallops Island, Va., to 86.6-mi. altitude, but nose cone failed to release. Using CW propagation transmitter, Gerdien condenser probe, and ion trap, experiments were to have measured ambient electron and ion density, monitored integrated ultraviolet flux from the sun, and tested two 12.267-me shroud antennas. The propagation experiment obtained good data from 83 sec. to peak, but no other experimental results were obtained. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
A new division was formed within the NASA Office of Advanced Research and Technology. The new Programs and Resources Division of OART would be headed by Merrill H. Mead who came to Hq. from the Ames Research Center. Dr. R. L Bisplinghoff, Associate Administrator for Advanced Research and Technology, said the new division was created to "improve the program planning capability and provide common objectives toward which all of the elements of the office can be directed." (NASA Release 64-132)
NASA revealed that it spent a record $1,939,000,000 in the first half of the current fiscal year, July 1, 1963, to December 31, 1963, for goods and services. The total sum was $15 million more than the previous high, for the six months ending June 30, 1963. 44 states participated in direct awards of NASA prime contracts of $25,000 or more. Of these 44, California received by far the largest amount in money terms, more than $700 million. (Sehlstedt, Balt. Sun, 6/4/64)
A $700,000 contract was awarded to the Defense and Space Operations Division of the Westinghouse Corp., Baltimore, Md., Operations Center by the Goddard Space Flight Center. The contract called for the complete integration, checkout, and testing of the ground communications system for NASA's Rosman, N.C., Stadan (Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network) station's second 85-ft. antenna system which would support the new Advanced Technological Satellite (ATS). (GSFC Release G-16-64)
Sh. P. Darchiya, an astronomer from the Pulkovo Observatory, succeeded in photographing details of the lunar surface on the unexposed side of the lunar disk, i.e" . under conditions of earthlight. Astronomers had previously recorded the luminescence of individual details of the lunar surface on the unexposed side of the lunar disk, but according to A. A. Mikhailov, Director of the Observatory, this phenomenon had never been confirmed by instrument observation. (Izvestia, 6/3/64, 4, ATSS-T Trans.)
It was reported that U.A.R. planned to soon launch its own earth satellite-a 40-70 lb. satellite boosted by a three-stage rocket. A source close to German rocket scientists in U.A.R. said the launching would probably be purely a prestige gesture, having little or no scientific value. (UPI, Wash. Post, 6/4/64)
HF-24 fighter-bombers designed by a team of 18 German aeronautical engineers and manufactured in Bangalore at the Hindustan Aircraft Co. were reportedly being delivered to the Indian government The chief of the team designing the HF-24 was reported to be Dr. Kurt Tank, principal designer for Germany's World War II Luftwaffe. (NANA, Wash. Eve. Star, 6/3/64)
Miss Jacqueline Cochran claimed her third jet speed record in less than a month, flying a Lockheed F-104 fighter aircraft. Flying at 1,135 mph over a 500-km. closed course at Edwards AFB, Calif., Miss Cochran bettered her own international record of 680.75 mph which she established over the same course on September 17, 1961. (NAA Release; AP, Wash. Post, 6/5/64)
USAF launched unidentified satellite payload aboard a Scout vehicle from Pt. Arguello, Calif. Purpose of the shot was not announced. (M&R, 6/15/64, 10)
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