Jan 16 1974
From The Space Library
Plans for an Arab communications satellite network were presented by Arab League engineer Salah Amir during a meeting with League Secretary General Mahmud Riyad in Cairo. The plans-prepared with the assistance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Communications Union-had been completed in 1972. The network would establish radio, TV, and news agency links among the Arab states to transmit standard educational, cultural, and development programs. Fifty ground stations would be established with the costs of each-between $500 000 and $1 000 000-defrayed by the country of its location. The costs of the satellites and launch facilities would be paid by member states. (Cairo MENA, FBIS-Inter-Arab, 17 Jan 74, A6)
The Air Force announced the award of a $1 553 500 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to Avco Corp. for design, development, and testing of a space reentry vehicle for the reentry vehicle nose-tip test program. (DOD Release 18-74)
A 12-story addition to the RCA Corp. building in Rockefeller Center in New York City would be constructed to use solar energy heat, RCA announced. The $6-million addition, a management conference center, would use panels on its solid exterior surfaces to capture solar energy in the form of radiant heat, which would be stored and substituted for other forms of energy. (RCA Release, 16 Jan 74)
A Huntsville Times editorial commented on the "lengthening space-flight endurance record" that Skylab 4 (launched 16 Nov. 1973 to man the Orbital Workshop) "sets with each successive turn it now makes around the old planet," with a February target splashdown date. "America's heart doubtlessly goes out to them, for that's an awfully long time for anyone to have to be away from earth's fuel shortages, inflation, rainy weather, dishwater-dull Super Bowls, Washington politics, air pollution, and traffic bottlenecks." (Huntsville Times, 16 Jan 74)
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