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fLIGHT International, 2 January 1964 35 NASA'S LAUNCH SCHEDULE The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's launch schedule for the next five years in the field of scientific, weather and communication satellites is summarized in the following list:—• Delayed from late 1963 S-52 United Kingdom 2 (Scout, Wallops); S-66 ionospheric beacon (Scout, California); S-55c micrometeoroid satellite (Scout, Wallops); APL-5E (radiation satellite resembling 1963-38C). January-March 1964 S-52a UK-2 back up (Scout, Wallops); S-48 US topside sounder (Scout, California); S-66a ionospheric beacon back-up (Scout, California); A-12 Echo 2 (Thor Agena B, California); A-16 Relay B (Delta C, Kennedy); San Marco (Scout, Wallops); S-17 Orbiting Solar Observatory B (Delta C, Kennedy); A-4 Nimbus A (Thor Agena B, California); A-19 Relay C (Delta C, Kennedy); S-74A interplanetary monitoring platform B (Delta C, Kennedy). April-June 1964 S-3c radiation belt satellite (Delta C, Kennedy); S-49 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory A (Atlas Agena B, Kennedy); A-54 Tiros 1 (Delta C, Kennedy); S-74b IMP-C (Delta C, Kennedy); A-27 Syncom C (thrust-augmented Delta, Kennedy). July-December 1964 S-57 OSO-C (Delta C, Kennedy); A-55 Tiros J (Delta C, Kennedy); S-50 OGO-B (TA Thor Agena B, California); Nimbus 1 (Thor Agena B, California); S-6a atmos- pheric structures satellite (Delta C, Kennedy); IMP-D (Delta C, Kennedy); Syncom D (TADelta, Kennedy); S-55d micrometeoroid satellite (Scout, Wallops). 1965 A-56 Tiros K (Delta C, Kennedy); A-5 Nimbus B (TA Thor Agena D, California); French VLF satellite (Scout, California); S-27a 30a prototype international satellite for ionospheric studies (Thor Agena B, California); OSO-D (Delta C, Kennedy); S-49a OGO-C (Atlas Agena B, Kennedy); Nimbus 2 (TA Thor Agena D, California); Tiros L (Delta C, Kennedy); IMP-E (Delta C, Kennedy); S-18 orbiting astronomical observatory A (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy); A-6 Nimbus C (TA Thor Agena D, California); S-50a OGO-D (TA Thor Agena D, California); IMP-F (Delta C, Kennedy); A-30 advanced Syncom A (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy); S-58 OAO-B (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy); OSO-E (Delta C, Kennedy). 1966 Nimbus 3, 4 and D (A-7) (TA Thor Agena D, California); OGO-E (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy); S-60 OGO-F (TA Thor Agena D, California); IMP-G (Delta C, Kennedy); atmospheric monitoring satellite A (Delta C, Kennedy); A-31 and 32, advanced Syncoms B and C (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy); UK-3 (Scout, Wallops); artificial comet A (vehicle and site uncertain); radio astronomy satellite (Delta, Kennedy); OSO-F (Delta C, Kennedy); OAO-C (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy). 1967-68 Nimbus 5 (TA Thor Agena D, California); ISIS A, B and C (Delta C, Kennedy); artificial comet B vehicle and site uncertain); A-33 advanced Syncom D (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy); atmospheric monitoring satellite (Delta C, Kennedy); S-9 and 79, OGO G and I (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy); S-70 OGO H (TA Thor Agena D, California); OSO G and H (Delta C, Kennedy); advanced OSO A and B (TA Thor Agena D, California); OAO-D S-78 (Atlas Agena D, Kennedy). Cosmos 24 The launch of the 24th satellite in the Russian Cosmos series was announced by the Tass news agency on December 19. Principal orbital elements are quoted as: initial period, 90.5min; apogee 408km; perigree 21 lkm; inclination 65°. A radio transmitter working on 19.995Mc/s was included in the payload and, the agency added in the accustomed phrase, all equipment aboard the satellite was functioning normally. „-.. ,„,_„..• v „ s,s Moscow Conference A three-day scientific conference on the optical tracking of artificial Earth satellites, attended by repre- sentatives of Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the USSR, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, opened in Moscow on December 17. According to Prof Alia Masevich, chairman of the organizing committee, the most important problem to be discussed consisted of the results of the first sessions of synchronous photographic observations of artificial Earth satellites. This method, Mrs Masevich said, was indispensable in compiling exact geographical maps of localities difficult of access, where conventional geodesical and cartographic methods were inadequate. She added that all work on space triangulation was co-ordinated on an international scale by the Astronomical Council of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Pulkovo Observatory. The improvement of specialized instruments and methods for photographic observation of satellites was stated to be among the topics of discussion at the conference. US/Swedish Firings US and Swedish scientists launched two sounding rockets from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on December 13 in a co-ordinated study of ion and electron concen- trations in the D-region of the ionosphere. A 121b Swedish payload was fired to a height of 60 miles by an Areas vehicle, and a 1001b payload devised by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was intended to achieve a height of 110 miles aboard a Nike-Apache. The Nike-Apache did not achieve the desired altitude because of a malfunction in the launch vehicle. Its payload included a camera supplied by the University of Leicester. . • : NASA's Explorer 19 air-density balloon satellite was successfully launched into orbit from Point Arguello by Scout vehicle on December 19. Left, a technician inspecu the telemetry package, with the deflated sphere folded inside the foreground tube. After injection into orbit, the satellite was inflated (right) by nitrogen gas. Following separation of the 12ft diameter satellite from its container, the nitrogen was allowed to escape, reducing the internal pressure to that of the space environment. The satellite skin, built up of four alternating layers of0.0005in aluminium foil and O.OOQSin Mylar polyester film, is sufficiently rigid to maintain the spherical shape
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