Mar 26 1968
From The Space Library
ComSatCorp in fourth annual report announced 1967 net income of $4.6 million. Highlights in 1967 included successful launch of three satellites (in four attempts) into synchronous orbit to extend full-time service to Pacific and expand capability in Atlantic, beginning of construction on three U.S. ground stations, completion of new ground stations by Italy and Spain, and increase in INTELSAT membership to 61 with addition of Uganda in January. (Text; ComSatCorp Release 68-11)
Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Dr. John S. Foster, Jr., in statement before Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, described DOD activities in space and aeronautics. "Military launches," he stated, "were intended to implement in part the functions of navigation, communication, nuclear detection, space defense, and meteorology, or to furnish scientific and/or development support." NASA's work, he said, had contributed "heavily" to science and technology base for DOD effort. In MOI. activities "considerable progress" had been made; feasibility of the MOL system was affirmed, technical risks were assessed in some detail, and full scale development was initiated." He described coordinated DOD-NASA range and network efforts and other cooperative programs in which DOD made its resources available to NASA on reimbursable basis. (Testimony; Aero Tech, 4/8/68, 10-11)
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