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... and in fulfilling Project Apollo communications requirements. It was third satellite in ComSatCorp 's INTELSAT II program to place two comsats in synchronous orbit-one over the Pacific, one over the ... Oct. 27, 1966, but failed to achieve synchronous orbit because apogee motor malfunctioned; second- Intelsat II-B was launched, Jan. 11, achieved synchronous orbit over the Pacific, and entered commercial service ...

... the scientific experiments, life support equipment, parachutes, and radio beacon to aid in recovery. Biosatellite II carried 13 experiments to determine effects of the space environment on various life processes. Performance ... 's Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Network, operated by Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC . Biosatellite II was built by the General Electric Reentry Systems Dept. The Delta launch vehicle was built ...

... ; no telemetric data were received in final moments before impact. Announcement said companion spacecraft VENUS II, launched Nov. 12, 1965, had passed within 14,900 mi. of Venus Feb. 27, and ... /36)’’ The Feb. 28 deaths of Astronauts Elliot M. See , Jr., and Charles A. Bassett II received editorial comment. Washington Evening Star: “Yesterday’s tragedy is all the more shocking in ... the best engineering talent in the nation can make them. A launch atop a Titan II , hazardous as it may be, cannot compare with the danger inherent in groping through low ...

... , 3/6/66)’’ After trip from Seal Beach, Calif., aboard USNS Pt. Barrow, Saturn II S-II -F facilities stage-non flight version of Saturn V /Apollo launch vehicle’s 2nd stage ... ensuring protection from high temperatures when braking in the dense layer of the atmosphere.” VENUS II had failed to transmit photos or televise the planet’s sunlit side as programmed because ... approached the planet were not held for reasons that had not been established.” Both VENUS II and VENUS III carried equipment to measure interplanetary magnetic fields, cosmic rays, and streams of ...

... -ramp provision provides an opportunity annually for launch service providers not presently under NLS II contract to compete for future missions, and allows launch service providers already under contract to introduce launch vehicles not currently on their NLS II contracts, such as Antares. NLS II contracts are multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with ordering periods ...

... sound basis for the continued development, demonstration and delivery of the proposed innovation in Phase II and follow-on efforts. Phase III is the commercialization of innovative technologies, products, and services resulting from either a Phase I or Phase II contract. Small businesses have created approximately 55 percent of all jobs in the United States ...

... $15 million -- from 19 American small businesses. Each is partnering with research institutions for Phase II of NASA’s competitive Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. STTR supports NASA's future ... Northrop Grumman in Gilbert, Arizona. United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colorado, is providing the Delta II launch service. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy, is responsible for launch service ...

... VIII meteorological satellites for ESSA. Scientific achievements included orbiting of NASA'S OGO V , Aao II, Explorer XXXVI , XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL satellites and Naval Research Laboratory's Explorer XXXVII . OAO ... three satellites for European Space Research Organization: In­ternational Radiation Investigation Satellite Iris I (Esro II-B), Aurorae (Esro I) to study aurora borealis and related polar ionosphere phenomena, and Highly ...

... -rotating status for Venus. This observation together with other ground measurements and data from MARINER II 's magnetometer indicated Venus has very low, if any, magnetic field. Analysis indicated solar plasma ... of Goldstone Tracking Station to within 20 yards, calculated to within 100 yards before MARINER II mis­sion; to determine value of Astronomical Unit, established by radar observations as 92,956 ...

... 14,292 lbs. reported for heaviest Soviet satellites. ''(M&R, 2/3/64, 18)'' RELAY II communications satellite transmitted portions of Soviet-American championship hockey game of the 1964 Winter Olympics ... made, and NASA scien­tists said that all communications experiments were of excellent quality. RELAY II also was sending back information on radiation collected by onboard instrumentation. ''(GSFC Historian; NASA Release ...

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