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^^*^- • • • .••:%;£.:-$iiifo."" j 482 FLIGHT International, 26 March 1964 Pershings for Europe It was announced by the US Department of Defense on March 19 that next month the first Pershing-equipped unit of the US Army to reach combat status will be posted to West Germany, to provide heavy artillery support to the US Seventh Army. The unit is the Fourth Battalion, 41st Artillery, and it has been working up with the 400-mile ballistic weapon at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Pershing is also to enter service with the West German Army. RN Polaris Submarine No 3 Last week the Civil Lord of the Admiralty announced that the third Royal Sovereign-class Polaris- armed submarine for the Royal Navy will be laid down in October of this year, and that the fourth and fifth ships will be started at intervals of approximately six months thereafter. Special equipment and long-lead items for these vessels have been, or are being, ordered. Mr Keith Norman (left), an experimental officer from the Space Research Group at University College, London, helps to instal a UCL ion mass spectrometer on NASA's S-48 ionospheric monitoring satellite. This spacecraft was due to be launched by Scout from Point Arguello last week Missiles and Spaceflight COSMOS 26 Launch of the 26th in the Cosmos series of satellites was announced by Tass on March 18. The announcement continued: "The satellite carries scientific instruments designed to continue outer space studies in conformity with the programme announced by Tass on March 16, 1962. The satellite has been launched with the following parameters: initial period of orbit, 91min; apogee, 403km; perigee, 271km; angle of the orbit to the plane of the equator, 49°. The scientific equipment, the radio system for precise measuring of elements of the orbit, the radio-telemetrical system to transmit to Earth data about the work of the equipment and scientific apparatus installed in the satellite are working normally. The co-ordinating and computing centre is processing information that is being received." AWARDS TO INVENTORS A $4,000 award has been made by NASA to Mr Harold R. Kaufman, head of the advanced systems section, electromagnetic propulsion division of the Lewis Research Center, for his invention of an ion rocket engine costing "several thousands of dollars" less than similar engines. The Kaufman unit will be used in NASA's first space electric rocket test flight (SERT-1). It is stated to be novel both in structure and in its use of electron bombardment to ionize the propellant. Other inventions were recognized in the following awards:— $2,000 to Robert C. Baumann and Leopold Winkler of Goddard Space Flight Center for a spacecraft spin-adjusting mechanism used aboard the Orbiting Solar Observatory and Syncom 2 satellites and Aerobee sounding rockets; $1,000 to Conrad Josias of Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a bipolar logarithmic current-to-voltage transducer flown on Ranger and Mariner spacecraft; $1,000 to James D. Acord and Howard C. Vivian of Jet Propul- sion Laboratory for a space vehicle attitude-control device used in Ranger and Mariner flights; $1,000 to Pleasant T. Cole of Goddard Space Flight Center for a system to record and reproduce pulse code modulated data; and $1,400 to William C. Morgan, Jack B. Esgar and Richard H. Kemp of Lewis Research Center for a thin-walled pressure vessel for use in testing materials that will be subjected to very low temperatures. First French Missile Submarine The launching of Gymnote, the first French submarine to be equipped with ballistic-missile arma- ment, took place at Cherbourg on March 17. No details of the weapon have been disclosed, but it is likely to be a solid-propellant missile with four vectored-thrust chambers, similar to several earlier designs produced under the authority of SEREB. Titan Success, Polaris Partial Polaris A3 suffered its 13th setback in 33 test shots on March 11. Fired from a land launcher, the missile had been programmed to impact over a short range of less than 1,000 miles, but it followed an erratic trajectory for some 75sec before plunging into the Atlantic well short of the intended distance. Two days later USAF Strategic Air Command fired a Titan II more than 5,000 miles down the Pacific Missile Range, in the tenth and final R&D flight of this missile from Vandenberg AFB. Harold R. Kaufman of Lewis Research Center holds a cutaway model of his ion engine, develop- ment of which earned him a $4,000 inventor's award (see "Awards to Inventors") Two other recipients of NASA awards were Howard C. Vivian (left) and James D. Acord (right) of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for their attitude-control system used in Ranger and Mariner flights. ;With the co-inventors and a Mariner model is the NASA Deputy Administrator, Dr Hugh L. Dryden
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