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... world weather program; Uhuru (Explorer XLII) Small Astronomy Satellite (launched for NASA by Italy); Sert II Space Electric Rocket Test; and OFO Orbiting Frog Otolith, carrying two bullfrogs. Launched as secondary ... 200 boosted Dart and Arcas rockets. About 60 high-altitude balloons-including one carrying Stratoscope II optical telescope-were launched to altitudes as high as 45 700 m (150 000 ft ... 1971. U.S.S.R.'s 88 payloads included 72 Cosmos satellites, 2 Lunas, 1 Zond, 1 Soyuz , 1 Venus, 2 Intercosmos, 4 Meteors, and 5 Molniya Is. Unmanned Luna XVI ...

... nine countries would be able to watch the Republican National Convention via NASA's RELAY II communications satellite. Television networks in England, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and ... fuels normally used. ''(NASA Release 64-164)'' It was probable that the Soviet space probe ZOND I , was nearing Venus and would try to send back the first close-up ...

... ’s and had directed gathering of information from captured German rocket scientists after World War II. As head of space system design for the Soviet Union, Sergey Pavlovich Korolev Korolev ’s ... SPUTNIK I in 1957 to VOSKHOD SPACECRAFT VOSKHOD II manned spacecraft. He also designed the Luna series of unmanned spacecraft and possibly the Zond series. ‘‘(Tass, 1/15/66; UPI, Wash. Post ...

... receive first photos from Environmental Survey Satellite ESSA II meteorological satellite. Successful operation of Environmental Survey Satellite ESSA II officially created world’s fist fully operational weather- ... authorization of non governmental communications satellite facilities. ‘‘(Text)’’ U.S.S.R.’s Zond III interplanetary probe, launched July 18, 1965, was 153,520,000 km. (95 ...

... Oct. 19. ''(GSFC SSR, 10/15/68; 10/31/68)'' U.S.S.R.'s Zond V could be precursor to next step in flying complex un­manned missions to Venus ... E. Davies and Cal Tech scientist Bruce C. Murray wrote in Science. Soviet descriptions of Zond V suggested U.S.S.R. might plan to send pair of spacecraft to Mars ... to the scientists' laboratory" free of "encumbrances and distortions of ra­dioed signals." He said Zond V had successfully completed assignment of developing means and methods for returning space devices. Also ...

... . Kramer suggested that, on the basis of his computations, the U.S.S.R.'s ZOND I probe was on a trajectory that would bring it on the sunlit side of Venus around July 24, 1964. His calculations were based on bulletins on ZOND I issued by Tass, and he asserted that they led him to two conclusions: first, that ZOND I was on a trajectory that would lead it to approach Venus closely; second, that ...

... ZOND III automatic space station was launched into a heliocentric orbit by U.S.S.R. ... studies in interplanetary space," Tass said, Pictures of the farside of the moon taken by ZOND III were later released on Aug. 20. ''(Tass, 7/18/65; Grose, NYT, 7/19 ... . That defeat was all the greater because of the failure of the Soviet Mars probe, Zond, sent on the same journey at roughly the same time MARINER IV was launched." ''(Schwartz ...

... Times commented on the success of the U.S.S.R. ZOND mission: "Like the Ranger and Mariner feats before it, Zond III has again shown what enormous gains in man's ... could have gotten similar photographs of the other side of the moon even earlier than Zond III had a sustained effort to this end been made, "The restraining element has been ...

Progress report in Pravda on ZOND III : "Soviet automatic space station Zond III launched July 18, 1965, continued its orbital flight gradually moving farther away from the ... check the systems that make it possible to change flight direction, the flight trajectory of Zond III was successfully corrected on September 16 for experimental purposes. The astro-orientation system, which ...

... spaceflight. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-258)’’ Prominent details of the moon’s far side photographed by Zond III in July 1965 had been named by Soviet astronomers for great scientists, Tass reported ... “kindly supplied by American researchers,” had revealed approximate overlap of details in photo taken by Zond III while remainder of photo coincided in part with photos taken by LUNA III. ‘‘(Tass ...

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