Launching Of O.G.O.
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) CAPE KENNEDY, June 7. A dragonfly-shaped satellite called Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 111, which was launched last night, will search for clues which may save the lives of future astronauts.
0.G.0., carrying 21 scientific experiments—a record for a United States spacecraft—went into a highly elliptical 48-hour orbit designed to take it 76,000 miles into space before swinging back to within 170 miles of the earth.
United States officials hope that the 11351 b spacecraft will help develop a solar flare prediction system that will give at least four weeks’ notice of dangerous streams of radioactive particles from the sun. Flares are at present predictable only three days ahead and a flight to the moon would be expected to last eight days.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 11
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