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3.2 NASA signs agreement with Netherlands on infrared project
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NASA
SIGNS
AGREEMENT
WITH
NETHERLANDS
ON
INFRARED
PROJECT(‘)
NASA and the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR) have entered into an agreement on the co-operative Infrared Astronomical Satellite project (IRAS). A memorandum of understanding on IRAS was signed on 4 October 1977 in The Hague, Netherlands, by Dr. Robert A. Frosch, NASA Administrator, and by A. B. Wolff, Chairman of the NIVR. The United Kingdom also will participate in the program under a separate memorandum of understanding between the UK Science Research Council and the NIVR. Scheduled for launch in 198 1, the Earth-orbiting observatory will employ a cryogenically cooled infrared telescope furnished by the United States, a spacecraft built by the Netherlands and a spacecraft command, control and data acquisition facility supplied by the United Kingdom. All three nations are participating in the scientific instrumentation and in the observing program. The IRAS mission. involving nearly 500 scientists, engineers and technicians of the three nations, will conduct the first astronomical survey of the entire sky at those infrared wavelengths undetectable by Earth-based telescopes because of the obscuring effects of the atmosphere. NASA will design and build the infrared telescope, and provide the Delta launch vehicle and launch services. The Netherlands will provide the spacecraft. Integration of the two systems will take place in the Netherlands. The satellite will be launched into a polar orbit from the US Western Test Range in early 1981. IRAS has a projected one-year lifetime to perform the scientific mission. NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif., has management responsibility for the telescope system, which will be built by Ball Brothers Research Corp., Boulder, Col. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has overall US project management responsibility. The Dutch effort will be managed at NIVR Headquarters in Delft, the Netherlands, and the British participation will be at Appleton Laboratory near London.
3.3 FRG TO PARTICIPATE
IN US JUPITER
MISSIONS@)
The Federal Republic of Germany has entered into an agreement with the United States to participate in NASA’s Jupiter Orbiter Probe (JOP) mission, scheduled for early 1982. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 5 October 1977 in Bonn, FRG, by Dr. Robert A. Frosch, NASA Administrator, and by Hans Matthoefer, Federal Minister for Research and Technology (BMFT) of FRG. WNASA News Release No. 77-210 of 4 October 1977. (*)NASA News Release No. 77-211 of 6 October 1977.
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NASA
SIGNS
AGREEMENT
WITH
NETHERLANDS
ON
INFRARED
PROJECT(‘)
NASA and the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR) have entered into an agreement on the co-operative Infrared Astronomical Satellite project (IRAS). A memorandum of understanding on IRAS was signed on 4 October 1977 in The Hague, Netherlands, by Dr. Robert A. Frosch, NASA Administrator, and by A. B. Wolff, Chairman of the NIVR. The United Kingdom also will participate in the program under a separate memorandum of understanding between the UK Science Research Council and the NIVR. Scheduled for launch in 198 1, the Earth-orbiting observatory will employ a cryogenically cooled infrared telescope furnished by the United States, a spacecraft built by the Netherlands and a spacecraft command, control and data acquisition facility supplied by the United Kingdom. All three nations are participating in the scientific instrumentation and in the observing program. The IRAS mission. involving nearly 500 scientists, engineers and technicians of the three nations, will conduct the first astronomical survey of the entire sky at those infrared wavelengths undetectable by Earth-based telescopes because of the obscuring effects of the atmosphere. NASA will design and build the infrared telescope, and provide the Delta launch vehicle and launch services. The Netherlands will provide the spacecraft. Integration of the two systems will take place in the Netherlands. The satellite will be launched into a polar orbit from the US Western Test Range in early 1981. IRAS has a projected one-year lifetime to perform the scientific mission. NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif., has management responsibility for the telescope system, which will be built by Ball Brothers Research Corp., Boulder, Col. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has overall US project management responsibility. The Dutch effort will be managed at NIVR Headquarters in Delft, the Netherlands, and the British participation will be at Appleton Laboratory near London.
3.3 FRG TO PARTICIPATE
IN US JUPITER
MISSIONS@)
The Federal Republic of Germany has entered into an agreement with the United States to participate in NASA’s Jupiter Orbiter Probe (JOP) mission, scheduled for early 1982. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 5 October 1977 in Bonn, FRG, by Dr. Robert A. Frosch, NASA Administrator, and by Hans Matthoefer, Federal Minister for Research and Technology (BMFT) of FRG. WNASA News Release No. 77-210 of 4 October 1977. (*)NASA News Release No. 77-211 of 6 October 1977.
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