Orbiting Observatory
JUN 01, 1966
DOI: 10.1063/1.3048316
A power supply failure shortly after launching has permanently ended the usefulness of the first orbiting astronomical observatory. The craft, which carried experiments to make observations in the low‐wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum, was sent up from Cape Kennedy on 8 April. There are no plans for a back‐up craft carrying the same experiments as the one that failed, but there are plans for future OAO’s, (two in 1967 and one in 1968), which will carry other experiments.
© 1966. American Institute of Physics
