Early 1970s design for a Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite (SEOS) that bears a surprising resemblance to Hubble, it just points in the other direction. The intention was to provide improved coverage of mesoscale weather phenomena like tornadoes, ground fogs, clear air turbulence and other...
I've seen references to Jupiter drop probes dating back to the mid 1960's, but this upper atmosphere probe dating from the early 1970's is the earliest detailed design I know of, to quote the abstract:
1. The Jovian turbopause probe. Part 1 - The scientific requirements for the Jovian...
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In the early 1960's NASA looked at reducing costs by using solid rocket boosters (SRB) to replace the first stages of Saturn class launch vehicles.
The contracted firm was the Grand Central Rocket Cº. They came up with two designs.
Rocket Nº. 1 comprised a first stage made up of 3 three...
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