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FLIGHT, 1 July 1960 First public demonstra- tion of the Australian- developed Malkara anti- tank missile took place at Lulworth, Dorset, on June 23. Adopted as a standard weapon for the British Army, it is wire- guided and carries a 601b warhead. This specimen was firing over a range of IJOOyd Missiles and Spaceflight . . . ROCKETDYNE'S HYDROGEN ENGINE The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announcedlast month that it would negotiate a contract with the Rocketdyne division of North American Aviation for the development of aliquid-hydrogen-fuelled engine of 200,0001b thrust. According to Rocketdyne this development will take about three years and willcost approximately $44m. The new engine may be used in clusters of two or four to powerupper stages of advanced configurations of Saturn. Initially it will be a single-start engine, but will be capable of modification formultiple starts in flight. The initial Saturn will be capable of boosting 25,0001b into a300-mile Earth orbit, or of sending 9,0001b on an interplanetary mission. Introducing a new second stage comprising two of thenew engines would increase the weight-lifting capacity by almost 50 per cent.The initial version of Saturn will consist of a first stage of eight engines producing 1.5 million pounds' thrust, a second stage offour 20,0001b thrust hydrogen engines and a third stage of two 20,0001b hydrogen engines. This is expected to come into use in1963, and to be followed by the more advanced configurations in the late 1960s. CONGRESS DETAILS The subjects to be covered in the four specialized sessions to beheld in conjunction with the eleventh congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Stockholm (August 15-20) have beenannounced by the Swedish Interplanetary Society. The space law colloquium will deal with (1) international control of outer space,and (2) damages to third parties on the surface caused by space vehicles, while the astrodynamics colloquium will cover (1) orbitdetermination, (2) perturbations and (3) orbit optimization. The subjects of the space-medical symposium will be (1) man-machine systems in space vehicles, (2) biodynamics of manned lunar landing and return, (3) telemetering of physiological datafrom space capsules, and (4) biological significance of space ambient radiations. The final symposium, devoted to small sound-ing rockets, will be concerned with (1) sounding rockets, and a panel discussion on range and launching problems, (2) instru-mentation and (3) problem areas. US SPACE PROGRAMME REVIEWED Following the annual general meeting of the Astronautics andGuided Flight Section of the Royal Aeronautical Society on Friday next, July 8, a lecture on the US space and astronauticsprogramme will be presented before the section at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, by Capt Robert F. Freitag,USN. The chairman of the section, A. V. Cleaver, will preside at this meeting, which begins at 6.30 p.m. Capt Freitag has served continuously in the guided missile androcket field since 1945, and his assignments have included the direction and establishment of the basic range instrumentationsystem for the Atlantic Missile Range, Cape Canaveral; head of the ballistic missile branch of the Bureau of Aeronautics, NavyDepartment, and project officer on Jupiter and Polaris missiles and the Vanguard Earth satellite. He was formerly planning officer atthe Pacific Missile Range headquarters, Point Mugu, and in May was appointed astronautics officer in the Bureau of Naval Weaponsof the Navy Department in Washington. Last October he was awarded the US Legion of Merit for his "outstanding professionalskill and timeless devotion to the fulfilment of vital assignments" in connection with the Naval and national guided missile pro-grammes between 1949 and 1959. Minneapolis-Honeywell's anti-submarine Asroc was recently demonstrated off the Florida coast. A surface-to-underwater missile, it is powered by a solid rocket and can carry either a homing torpedo or a depth-charge as its warhead. It is scheduled for operational readiness next January At Patuxent River recently, several Martin Bull pup air-to-surface missiles were fired from a Sikorsky HUS-1 of the US Marine Corps. One missile, fired from 1J500U, hit "within inches" of an orange target disc 10,000yd out in Chesapeake Bay; that illustrated was fired from 500ft at 90 m.p.h.
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