Jun 6 1977
From The Space Library
MSFC announced that SPAR IV, fourth of the space-processing applications rockets, would be launched June 21 carrying four experiments including a new acoustic-levitation device for containerless processing and a device to magnify in-flight photographs of the materials being processed. Principal investigators would be Dr. Taylor Wang of JPL, using acoustic pressure to handle a drop of water without touching it; Dr. Donald Uhlman and Dr. Bennett Joiner of MIT, studying solidification of 7 different materials in low gravity; Dr. John Papazian of Grumman Aerospace, studying castings produced in low gravity; and Dr. Arthur Lord of Drexel Univ. with Jerry Wouch of General Electric, using the electromagnetic levitator to make an alloy in low-g and study its properties. (MSFC Release 77-80)
INTELSAT announced it had awarded to Miteq Inc., Happauge, NY, a $34 800 contract for up-converter and down-converter units to be used with time-division multiple-access test-bed equipment. (INTELSAT Release 77-13-M)
The National Space Development Agency of Japan had decided to build a third version of its N launch vehicle before the mid-1980s, (Av Wk, reported. The N-3 would be able to put into synchronous orbit a payload weighing 500kg (more than 10001b). N-1, first of the series, had used a liquid-propellant first stage like that in the McDonnell Douglas Delta, with three Nissan-designed strap-on motors instead of the 9 on the Delta. (Av Wk, June 6/77, 203)
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