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574 FLIGHT, 12 October 19 Contour cable is the name given by Hughes Aircraft to a wide range of new forms of multi-channel electrical conductor developed for missile applica- tions. On the left is an assortment of cables consisting of strip and foil carried on plastic ribbon; on the right is a 576-channel connector for a missik checkout equipment, which within a length of 26in incorporates a static 90° bend and a dynamic 270 twist—a bend /twist performance which would be impossible with 576 wires made up into a single conventional cable Missiles and Space flight. . . THE ESLO CONFERENCE Seven of the 12 nations invited to discuss the Anglo-French propo- sals for a European Space Launcher Organization have accepted and will send delegates to the conference. This welcome news is given in an announcement by the Ministry of Aviation dated October 2, which states:— "Countries represented at the Strasbourg Conference earlier thisyear have now replied to the Anglo-French invitation to take part in a further conference to draw up a convention under which the EuropeanSpace Launcher Organization would operate. "So far Germany. Belgium, Denmark. Spain, and the Netherlandshave agreed to attend. Austria, Switzerland and Norway have declined, and replies are still awaited from Italy and Sweden."It is hoped to arrange the conference in London at the end of October." On the day that this statement was issued, the Prime Ministercalled the following Ministers to a conference at Admiralty House: Mr Thorneycroft, Minister of Aviation, who has been in charge ofthe negotiations with other European countries; Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Hailsham, Lord President of theCouncil and Minister for Science; Mr Watkinson, Minister of Defence; Mr Heath, Lord Privy Seal; Mr Amery, Secretary ofState for Air; Mr Braine, Under-Secretary of State for Common- wealth Relations; and Mr Bevins, Postmaster-General. FROM SCOUT TO DELTA The first joint US/UK ionospheric satellite may have to be launchedby Thor-Dclta vehicle from Cape Canaveral instead of by the much cheaper Scout from Wallops Station. Wallops Island, Virginia.This was stated in Washington on October 2 by Dr Arnold Frutkin. Director of International Programs of the National Aeronauticsand Space Administration. Dr Frutkin said that it was "normal experience" that as oneworked on satellites, the latter steadily became heavier than originally envisaged; and, as one worked on launch vehicles, the latter became"less powerful." A combination of these two factors meant that, to ensure that the orbital requirements were met, the choice of adifferent vehicle might be necessary. The British instruments in the first joint satellite, he added, were of sufficient interest for NASA towant to make sure that they had every chance of achieving orbit. The Thor booster, first stage of the Delta vehicle, was known to bereliable, whereas the Scout was new. The launch date for the joint satellite was " hopefully, in the first half of next year." MARINER TO USE ATLAS-AGENA B Severe delays in the development of the Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle are reflected in the following NASA announcement, which was made on September 29:— "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planningto launch a Manner spacecraft on an Atlas-Agena B rocket for a mid-1962 flight to the vicinity of Venus. The mission will take advan-tage of the first opportunity for a Venus flight—when the Earth and Venus are in the most favourable relative positions—and provide Progress with the satellite communications aerial being erected by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company near Andover, Maine, is evident from the photograph on the left; the 300-ton aerial is protected by an inflated flexible sphere. On the right is a new photograph, issued by Toss on October 4, of the radio telescope now in use by the Soviet Academy of Science
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