European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 18,1s86 weather satellite launched into space Vandenberg fab. . The troubled space program the refurbished on Simc intercontinental ballistic missile look off at 8 52 . And climbed smoothly into the partly Cloudy sky on the fiery thrust of three engines burning kerosene with liquid oxygen. It was America s second space shot within two weeks. Before he successful launch of a Delia rocket from Cape canaveral sept. 5, inc Nalion had suffered Ihrcke failures in four Orbital launching beginning Wilh inc Jan. 28 challenger disaster everything continuing to look very Good said a launch control spokesman As the rocket approached the fringes of space. Two Booster engines separated As planned two min utes after launch with inc alias 48 Miles above the Pacific Ocean. Mounted on he nose of the 94-Foomal Tocket was a$37.3 million Noaa satellite carrying a variety of storm searching instruments 10 provide Day and night coverage of global Cloud patterns. The spacecraft was designed to Circle the Earth 14limes a Day from an Altitude of 51s Miles observing a different slice of atmosphere below As Earth rotates beneath the satellite s North South Polar Arbil. This launch Means thai half of our satellite program the Polar satellites will be restored to full working Cap Abili said project director Larry Heacock of he National oceanic and atmospheric administration. It will improve weather forecasts in the three to five Day the launch has been put off 16 limes during the past year because of a series of administrative changes an technical roubles. The Allase was Bull an an Filer Continental ballistic missile by the general dynamics corp. In 1961, and company spokesman Judd Giesenschlag said before Blastoff. We re looking Forward to the Opportunity to restore Confidence in the american space this launch is very important said Nasa spokes Man Jerry Longanecker. We just had a failure Back in May i was very devastating but we re making sure thai All goes of with this it was inc first attempt 10 launch a satellite from since an air Force Titan 34-d blew up april 18, destroying a spy satellite and causing 170million in damage to Titan launch facilities. Another Atlas launched in february was the nation s Only satellite launching Success before this month s flight of inc Delta from Florida. Besides improving weather forecasting new satellite was equipped to serve As an overhead Monitor for scarch and re scum operations. The satellite also is carrying an Experiment to study the effects of Earth s heat budget she amount of sunlight absorbed by inc plane and he Energy radiated Back into space officials said. Lois Scharnberg looks stunned a � single engine Cessna Sie Diw in the House to limit Voly the " Only in win the Reni it h eur or Craso to the i6
