January 1990
From The Space Library
NASA completed a facility to house the second ground station for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TORS) system. Located at White Sands, New Mexico, near the existing terminal, the station was predicted to be fully operational by 1993. The equipment that the new terminal would house was to be technically superior to the communications network in the original building, but the two were to work together in a combination meant to reduce the likelihood for any loss of contact with the two 1 DRS satellites in orbit. (CSM, Jan 30/90)
NASA signed an agreement with the Maryland Department of Economic and Employment Development for technology sharing designed to increase commercial exploitation of space technology. The agreement, like the ones reached earlier with Virginia and West Virginia, would mainly involve sup-plying NASA research reports, sponsoring seminars and lectures, and making NASA laboratories available to the private sector. (W Post, Jan 5/90)
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