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Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Goldstone Tracking Station turned on MARINER II's four interplanetary experiments by command, when the Venus-bound spacecraft was 14.6 million ... to conserve power when onboard voltage drop was noted. Experiments were resumed when telemetry from MARINER II indicated onboard power supply was normal again. Signals received at Goldstone showed the resumed experiments ...

Venus-bound MARINER II spacecraft set new record for communications, transmitting engineering and scientific data to earth from nearly ... scientific data were obtained beyond 17.7 million mi.) Launched by NASA on Aug. 27, MARINER II was providing new information on nature of interplanetary space. It would fly by Venus at ...

... sounding rocket reached an altitude of near 68 mi. Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL scientists said MARINER II 's earth-seeking sensor had unaccountably gained strength since the probe passed Venus Dec. 14 ... aimed at learning more about the ionosphere. Article in Komsomolskaya Pravda stated that one of MARINER II 's main missions was to learn temperatures of Venutian atmosphere and surface but that Soviet ...

... of Venus Oct. 19. NASA hoped to acquire valuable information to supplement that learned from Mariner II , which in 1962 had detected no radiation belts and no magnetic field at miss distance ... to study oceans, "United States Activities in Spacecraft Oceanography," was published by National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development and jointly prepared by NASA, Naval Oceanographic Office, Bureau of Commercial ...

... -48)’’ Five NAA Rocketdyne J-2 engines designed to power Saturn V ’s Saturn II S-II stage successfully underwent second consecutive full-duration test firing aboard “battleship” test vehicle at Santa ... planetary magnetism leading to comparison of earth with a “magnetic comet” and results obtained by MARINERS II and IV indicating the unique strength of earth’s magnetic field, compared with those of ...

... MARINER II interplanetary space probe completed its first orbit of the sun, after traveling approximately 540,000, ... , and economic progress and upon structure of the U.S. economy. ''(NASA Leg. Act. Rpt. II/118)'' )'' In Washington press conference, President Kennedy was asked about relative status of antimissile missile ...

New information on solar wind, obtained from analysis of data from MARINER II interplanetary probe, released by Na­tional Academy of Sciences. Data showed continuous flow of solar ... that Ranger VI would be ready for flight to the moon by about Thanksgiving and Mariner III would be available. for flight past Mars by fourth quarter of 1964. ''(Hines, Wash ...

... or had stopped transmitting before it reached planet's solid surface. Precise radio tracking of Mariner V-U.S. spacecraft which had completed flyby mission by crossing Venus orbit Oct. 19 ... consistent with estimates from passive radio astronomy and with results of radiometer experiment conducted by Mariner II in 1962, when surface temperature was found to be 800° F. ''(NASA Release 68-147 ...

... from 54 million miles out, exceeding the record of 53.9 million miles set by MARINER II in 1963. ''(AP, San Diego Eve, Trib, 4/14/65; NASA Releases 65-111, 65 ...

... -A) launched Nov. 26, 1963. ''(NASA Release 65-164; Wash, Sun. Star, 5/30/65)'' MARINER IV , NASA's Mars flyby and photographic probe, reached the distance of one AU (Astronomical ... of the earth from the sun that had been established, partially from data received from MARINER II , as 92,956,000 mi. The probe had traveled over 271 million mi, in its ...

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