HOLLAND: NEW EUROPEAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION CENTRE NEARS COMPLETION

Record ID: 496424

  • Title: HOLLAND: NEW EUROPEAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION CENTRE NEARS COMPLETION
  • Date: 27th January 1967
  • Summary: 1. LV PAN NEW BUILDINGS 0.08 2. LV NEW BUILDINGS 0.12 3. LV BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION 0.15 4. GTV THERMAL CHAMBER IN LABORATORY 0.20 5. SV THERMAL MOVED 0.23 6. SV MAN AT CONTROLS OF LIFTED DEVICE 0.26 7. SV THERMAL CHAMBER IN POSITION 0.29 6. GV TESTING EQUIPMENT (2 SHOTS) 0.37 9. GV OPERATIONS ROOM WITH COMPUTERS 0.42 10. SV TECHNICIAN RECEIVING INSTRUCTION FOR PROGRAMMING COMPUTER 0.45 11. CU DITTO 0.50 12. SCU TAPE RECORDER 0.53 13. GV PAPER READING 0.54 14. CU SPOOLS IN COMPUTER 1.00 15. CU OSCILLOSCOPE 1.05 16. LV ROOM FULL OF COMPUTERS 1.10 Initials GHB/V/MGT/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th February 1967 12:00
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  • Location: NOORDWIJK, HOLLAND
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Reuters ID: LVADHD0TGGEETZG5BZ5A71GS7QVF
  • Story Text: NEW BUILDINGS FOR THE EUROPEAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ESRO) ARE NEARING COMPLETION AT NOORDWIJK, NEAR THE HAGUE. SET UP IN 1964, ESRO ANNOUNCED ON JANUARY 19 THAT THE FIRST SATELLITE LAUNCHING IN A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAMME WOULD TAKE PLACE IN CALIFORNIA, USA, ON MARCH 2.

    THE NINE MEMBER COUNTRIES OF ESRO ARE BRITAIN, WEST GERMANY, ITALY, SWEDEN, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, SPAIN AND DENMARK. FROM 1964 TO 1966 ABOUT TEN SERIES OF LAUNCHING OF SOUNDING ROCKETS TOOK PLACE ON RANGES IN ITALY, FRANCE, NORWAY AND GREECE.

    THE ANNOUNCEMENT EARLIER THIS MONTH BY DR. HEINZ BUSCH, DIRECTOR OF SPACECRAFT PROJECTS, SAID THE FIRST OF THE SATELLITES TO BE LAUNCHED WITH A UNITED STATES ROCKET WOULD PROBE ABOUT 60 TO 90 MILES (100-150 KILOMETRES) INTO SPACE. A SECOND ESRO SATELLITE IS SCHEDULED FOR LAUNCHING FROM THE SAME RANGE IN SEPTEMBER, AND THE THIRD FROM CAPE KENNEDY IN OCTOBER NEXT YEAR. THERE WOULD BE TWO MORE LAUNCHINGS IN 1970 AND THERE WERE ALSO PLANS FOR A MEDIUM-ORBIT LAUNCHING WHICH WOULD TAKE A TELESCOPE INTO SPACE TO STUDY THE STARS.

    DR. BUSCH SAID THE RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENTS WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO ALL NATIONS.

    ONE OF THE CHIEF TASKS OF THE FIRST SATELLITE WILL BE TO SUPPLY INFORMATION ABOUT THE RAYS OF THE SUN. ESRO HOPES TO LAUNCH A SATELLITE BY A EUROPEAN ROCKET BY 1973.
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