Mar 16 1977
From The Space Library
MSFC announced award of a $279 714 contract to Sperry Support Services, a division of Sperry Rand Corp., Huntsville, Ala., for design, construction, and delivery of equipment for the mated vertical ground-vibration test (MVGVT) of the Space Shuttle, scheduled for 1978. The test would confirm the theoretical model used in dynamic analyses of the Space Shuttle, external tank, and solid-fuel rocket boosters. (MSFC Release 77-39)
Dr. Albert Rango of GSFC and Dr. K.I. Itten of the Univ. of Zurich announced that orbiting earth satellites could monitor winter snowpacks and their runoff as accurately as ground-based or airborne observations, NASA reported. Their findings appeared in the journal Nordic Hydrology. Comparing costs and relative accuracy of ground, airborne, and satellite measurements, the two scientists decided that the use of NASA's Landsat earth resources monitoring satellite and the Natl. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's environmental satellite NOAA 2 would provide timely and accurate information at lower cost than the alternatives. (NASA Release 77-52)
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