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... that time would allow them to solve the problem. Both Viking spacecraft Viking l and 2 were launched with their lander batteries essentially uncharged to prolong their lives; the batteries aboard ... had been identified might have damaged it as well as the prime charger. Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 , originally scheduled to be launched first, had been pulled back for repair after its ...

NASA planned 18 major satellite launchings in 1976, 16 from Cape Canaveral and 2 from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base . First of these, on 13 ... built by West Germany. Other NASA launches during the year would include 2 comsats for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 2 maritime comsats (Marisats); Palapa , a comsat for the Indonesian government; the ...

... the solar system. Reports from Italy, Switzerland, and elsewhere described the comet's tail as 2 to 4 times the apparent diameter of the moon, unusually short for so bright a ... , highflying aircraft, and ground-based instruments; smog or clouds might make ground observation difficult. (NYT, 2 Mar 76, 17; 9 Mar 76, 43; B :Sun, 3 Mar 76, A-3) February 1976 February March 1976 March Mar 1 1976 1 Mar 2 1976 2 Mar 3 1976 3 Mar 4 1976 4 Mar 5 1976 5 Mar 6 1976 ...

... an area west of the previously selected landing point. (W Post, 8 July 76, A-2) An altered orbit put Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 over an area called Plateau of ... plateau to be "twice as smooth as the plains." (W Post, 7 July 76, A-2) A JPL spokesman said preliminary pictures of another landing site proposed for Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 showed Martian terrain as rugged as that in 2 spots previously rejected. Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 was scheduled to take more photographs of ...

... confirm the presence of life on Mars until results from Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 were in. Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 was on its way to a landing scheduled for 3 Septa on ... Stanford University had told associates that Martian life forms brought to earth might threaten the 2 million species of life here by competing in unknown ways for food, water, or air needed to survive. (Thomas O'Toole, W Post, 3 Sept 76, A-2) Marshall Space Flight Center announced that the Space Div. of Rockwell Intl. Corp. at Palmdale ...

... crossing national borders); and certain intelligence, DOD, NASA, NOAA , and civilian programs. (AV Wk, Jan 2/78, 14) AV Wk reported NASA's announcement that it would send Pioneer 11 to ... place Pioneer 11 at about the same distance from Saturn as the trajectory of Voyager 2 , if NASA should decide to use Saturn's gravity to hurl Voyager ... . Pioneer 11 should reach Saturn in Sept. 1978. (AV Wk, Jan 2/78, 15; Lewis News, Jan 6/78, 2) President Carter's $100 million reduction in MX-missile FY 1979 funding ...

... , would support the first CARP global experiment. (NASA MOR E-612-78-01 postlaunch Aug 2/78) Marshall Space Flight Center announced that its test engineers had successfully completed the first ... its precise location and any associations with stars or stellar objects. (Goddard News, Aug 2/78, 2) Aerospace Daily reported that the Senate Appropriations Committee had approved a FY79 $4.359 billion ...

... computer system. (H Comm Sci Release 96-235) Nature magazine described equipment problems on HEAO 2 , also called the Einstein observatory, that might end the mission prematurely. Launched in 1978, HEAO ... three weeks ago when two of the six gyroscopes failed after a temporary blackout. HEAO 2 needed three functioning gyroscopes for positioning. One of the other four was already dead; another ...

... important contribution to the NAS of the 1990s. ( Lewis Research Center LeRC News, May 2/85, 2) The waste products of two monkeys and two dozen rats continued to float through the ... the mission to give the crew additional time to try to deploy it. On May 2 Fichtl explained that the rats' and one monkey's vigorous movement, which was "much more ... Release 85-64) April 1985 April May 1985 May May 1 1985 1 May 2 1985 2 May 3 1985 3 May 4 1985 4 May 5 1985 5 May 6 1985 ...

The European Space Agency ( ESA ) announced that it launched at 11.23 hours GMT July 2 Giotto , ESAs interplanetary space probe that would after a 700 million km voyage encounter Halley ... placed Giotto into a geostationary transfer orbit with parameters of 35,966 km, apogee; 199.2 km, perigee; and 7° inclination. Following separation from the launcher's third stage 22 minutes ...

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