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From the very start, the mission seemed to have been somewhat jinxed. The launch, postponed and rescheduled five times, was even delayed during the final countdown when a cargo ship steamed into the area of the Atlantic Ocean where the booster rocket was expected to fall. The mission's thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7½-ton cylinder...
...Forest Service. Meteorologists blame a mammoth high-pressure system, centered over Utah and bringing temperatures as high as 112 °F, for the weather conditions that have fostered the fires. The climatic front has locked the Western states into a kind of giant sauna, where dry heat settles, ocean breezes cannot penetrate and nighttime temperatures remain high. "We're facing all of July and August," said Clyde O'Dell, a Boise-based federal meteorologist. "It doesn't look good." (Dry weather has plagued other areas of the country as well, but it has brought drought rather than fire to them...
...more than two weeks, searchers from India, Canada, Ireland, the U.S., Britain and France had combed some 5 sq. mi. of ocean 110 miles southwest of Cork, Ireland, hoping to discover why Air-India Flight 182 had plunged into the North Atlantic on June 23, killing all 329 passengers and crew aboard. The clues were thought to be contained in two small bright orange metal boxes, commonly called "black boxes." One records the voices of the plane's crew; the other collects data about flight conditions. Both boxes are located behind a ceiling panel just forward of the Boeing...
...diving machine was built by Ametek Inc. in 1976 to install and repair transoceanic telephone cables. The Scarab 1 is 11 ft. long, weighs approximately 2½ tons and is equipped with sophisticated sonar, as well as television cameras with zoom lenses and high-intensity lights that illuminate the ocean floor. A team of eight engineers from London, working four to a shift, controlled the submersible from aboard the cable ship by firing electric and hydraulic thrusters to maneuver the craft, which was attached to a 10,000-ft. umbilical cord. Scarab 1's cameras and mechanical arms were also operated...
...wreckage. On Friday, the Scarab 1 first detected the distinctive electronic pinging signals emitted by flight recorders but could not fix their location. Then, at 2 a.m. last Tuesday, the engineers hit the jackpot: on their video screens they saw the downed plane's voice recorder on the ocean floor, 6,700 ft. below. Maneuvering the sub closer by firing small bursts from its thrusters, they gingerly extended one of Scarab's mechanical arms so that it carefully picked up the black box. The submersible was then slowly hoisted aboard the Léon Thevenin, clutching its prize...