Jun 21 1974
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
The Air Force awarded a $42.8-million fixed-price-incentive firm-award-fee contract to Rockwell International Corp. to design, develop, fabricate, launch, and operate three prototype satellites in the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. Included in the contract were associated hardware, qualification model, and computer programming and services. In addition, two navigation subsystems would be delivered for use aboard a NAVSTAR satellite to be developed by the Naval Research Lab-oratory. When completed, the 24 satellites in the NAVSTAR system would provide worldwide precise positioning and navigation, day or night, and under all weather conditions. (DOD Release 268-74)
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