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After ten months in orbit, however, Solar Max blew three critical fuses. The failure impaired its ability to keep properly turned toward the sun, left it wobbling like a top, and triggered breakdowns in its battery of instruments. The $325 million Solar Max program seemed moribund...
Vandenberg Air Force Base was chosen as a shuttle facility because it offers ideal conditions for launching spacecraft into polar orbit. Shuttles lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida enter a more or less equatorial orbit and fly over only part of the earth's surface. Spacecraft sent from Vandenberg into polar orbit will slice across the earth's twirling path and pass over a slightly different strip of the globe on each swing. Satellites placed in polar orbit have the capability of photographing any section of the earth. This gives them an intelligence-gathering potential significantly...
...Cape Canaveral. The exact mission will be top secret, as will all shuttle flights from Air Force-run Vandenberg, but it has been reported that the main job on that first flight will be to ferry two satellites into space. Since Discovery will be placed in a polar orbit, its ground track will cover the Soviet Union. One of those satellites could be a new hush-hush communications package, and the other a device equipped with infrared sensors to spot Soviet missile launches. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by William R. Doerner/Vandenberg Air Force Base...
...prospect of seeing a real live network anchor on Iowa soil all that great. One of the boys at Toad's slipped in the ultimate putdown: "Watching an anchorman is like watching an astronaut in orbit: they are both weightless...
...unprecedented hue and cry. The Soviet Union was accused of all imaginable sins: an ambition to make a breakthrough to the warm seas, an intention to pocket foreign oil, etc. The actual reason for that campaign of slander was the collapse of the plans to draw Afghanistan into the orbit of imperialist politics and to create a threat to our country from the south. Now life in Afghanistan is gradually returning to normal...