NASA Launch Delayed

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Summary

The launch of the first High Energy Astronomy Observatory, HEAC-A, a space satellite carrying a Smithsonian-designed experiment for mapping X-ray resources in the heavens, planned for April 15, 1977, is rescheduled by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration when "problems developed in the observatory's gyroscope package."

Subject

National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Torch, 6/1977, p. 7

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1977

Topic

Cooperation

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