Sep 2 1964
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
At press conference, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center officials said NIMBUS I meteorological satellite was performing successfully and sending back cloud cover photographs of unexpectedly good quality. First nighttime pictures of cloud cover, made with the satellite's infrared sensor, were comparable in quality and resolution to the TV pictures made by Tiros meteorological satellites. Unplanned orbit-eccentric rather than circular-reduced the satellite's earth coverage from 100% every 24 hours to about 70%. (GSFC Press Conf. Transcript; Finney, NYT, 9/3/64, 13)
NASA's SYNCOM II and SYNCOM III crossed paths at the equator about 22,000 mi. above the Pacific Ocean at about 162° east longitude. SYNCOM launched into synchronous equatorial orbit Aug. 19, was drifting toward International Date Line at rate of 3.3° per day, SYNCOM II, launched into orbit July 26, 1963, was moving in figure-8 pattern 33° north and south of the equator. (NASA Release 64-217)
DOD announced $5,550,012 contract for integrated navigation systems for three Project Apollo tracking ships had been awarded by Naval Bureau of Ships to Sperry Rand Corp. (Don Release 633-64)
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