Oct 26 1962
From The Space Library
USAF announced launching of unnamed satellite employing a Thor-Agena launch vehicle from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
Titan II rocket launched by USAF from Cape Canaveral scored its fifth successful test flight in seven attempts.
NASA published proposed revisions to patent regulations, simplifying procedures under which NASA can waive to contractors commercial rights to inventions developed under NASA contracts. Patent waiver regulations would not be effective until after public hearings, scheduled for December. NASA also issued regulations prescribing how NASA-held patents would be made available for industrial or commercial development. NASA announced it would make provisional agreements with industry for nonexclusive commercial development of inventions on which NASA patents were pending. Revised patent policy was designed to promote widespread use of space inventions by industry and the public.
Third high-altitude nuclear test of Operation Dominic was conducted by U.S. near Johnston Island in the Pacific. The sub-megaton bomb was carried to estimated altitude of between 30 and 40 mi. by Thor missile.
New York Times reported a 300-ft.-diameter radiotelescope at National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, W. Va., had recently detected in one day as many radio signals from Jupiter as smaller instruments have recorded in a month. Source of Jupiter's long-wave radio signals was still unresolved.
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