Nov 23 1965
From The Space Library
COSMOS XCVI was launched by the Soviet Union carrying scientific instruments for continued space research under the program announced by Tass Mar, 16, 1962, Orbital data: apogee, 310 km. (192.5 mi,) ; perigee, 227 km. (140.9 mi.) ; period, 89.6 min.; inclination, 51°54'. Equipment was functioning normally. (Tass, 11/ 23/65)
Last in series of three NASA Nike-Apache sounding rockets with Univ. of Alaska instrumented payload was launched from Ft. Churchill, Canada, to obtain data on the visible aurora. First in the series of nighttime experiments was launched Nov. 16 and the second, Nov, 20. All three rockets performed satisfactorily. On first two flights experiment instrumentation performed normally, but on the third flight portions of the instrumentation did not function normally because nose cone failed to eject. The complete series resulted in an excellent collection of scientific data. (NASA Rpts, SRL)
A team of scientists from USAF Office of Aerospace Research (OAR) and the Lockheed-California Co, under OAR sponsorship, recorded the annular eclipse at an observing station established in the Burma-Thailand area, Purpose of the expedition was to verify deviations in the moon's shape which appeared in photographs taken by the Lockheed-California Co, during two similar eclipses-one in West Africa in 1962, and the other in South Africa in 1963. (OAR Release)
Sea bottom between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, which was affecting the orbits of artificial satellites, had become subject of a survey by British and American geophysicists on the British survey vessel, Dampier. Gravitational pull of exceptionally dense rock about 24,000 ft. below the surface was so strong it tended to drag the satellites out of their intended orbits. (NYT, 11/23/65, 23)
Preliminary results of ARPA-sponsored Project Longshot-detonation October 29 of an 80 kiloton nuclear device buried 2,300-ft, deep on Amchitka Island, the Aleutians-indicated that seismic wave arrival times from the region were earlier than predicted at all locations monitoring the event. This indicated a pronounced seismic velocity anomaly in the crust and mantle of the Amchitka region. If further analysis confirmed this result, it could lead to revisions in curves of energy loss for seismic wave propagation to long range, Results of Longshot also provided data of use in research on distinguishing earthquakes from nuclear events. (DOD Release 846-65)
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