July 6, 1964

July 6, 1964

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EUROPE

Europe Builds Multilateral Space Effort

EUROPE

German Space Effort Waits New Direction

EUROPE

France Plans to Strengthen Top Position in Europe

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EUROPE

Europe Builds Multilateral Space Effort

Paris—British Skylark sounding rocket is scheduled to arc above Italy’s Salto-di-Quirra Range in Sardinia later this month to inaugurate a series of interrelated projects that eventually will provide large segments of Western Europe with an active, broad and multilateral space program.
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EUROPE

German Space Effort Waits New Direction

Bad Godesberg—Direction of West Germany’s space effort during the next two to three years hinges largely on the contents of the German Commission for Space Research’s (DKfW) space research memorandum, to be delivered to the Federal Ministry for Scientific Research this summer or early fall.
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EUROPE

France Plans to Strengthen Top Position in Europe

Paris—French government is considering a formal, ambitious proposal within the framework of its 1965-70 national fiscal program that would substantially strengthen its role as the leading West European space power and further its goal of becoming a world leader in the field, probing areas and technologies that largely have been ignored by the U.S. and USSR.
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PACIFIC

Japan Plans to Develop, Launch Variety of Space Systems

Tokyo—Japan wants to develop and launch a variety of earth orbiting satellites to observe the weather, establish worldwide communications, provide navigation aid to ships and make geodetic and other scientific measurements. But before any large-scale program can get under way, the country must pull together the pieces of its highly-fragmented space effort and the Japanese Diet (Congress) will have to provide more financial support than it has in the past.
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EUROPE

Scandinavians Advance Ionosphere Data

Kiruna, Sweden—Scandinavian nations are looking forward to increasing activity in their long-time specialty—polar upper-atmosphere and ionosphere research—by means of sounding rockets and the European Space Research Organization ESRO-1 polar-orbiting ionosphere satellite, despite modest space budgets and the small number of men working in their space programs.
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EUROPE

British Space Efforts Keyed to Important Fall Elections

London—British space development program, deeply committed to the total European effort but dogged by public indifference, is running on its own inertia and will continue to do so until after October when the electorate chooses between a Conservative or Labor government.
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EUROPE

Italians Focusing on San Marco Satellite

Rome—Energetic Italian space program is centered in the $35 million San Marco atmospheric measurements satellite that could score several significant space firsts for Italy within the next year.. If the time schedule is maintained, Italy will be the first European nation to launch a satellite from Europe, according to Prof.
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MIDDLE EAST

Israel Begins to Apply Theoretical Work

Tel Aviv—With a wealth of highly-trained scientific talent whose origins, educations and technical backgrounds virtually span the globe, Israel has made a number of substantial theoretical contributions to space teehnology. Now, Israel is moving from theory to applications, and is looking to space to help solve the problem of transforming the country’s desert environment into one that is liveable and productive and will sustain its growing population.
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AMERICAS

Canadians Seek Coordinated, Expanded Space Effort

Ottawa—Canadian space officials, striving to insure continued growth of their country’s space program, are debating two major questions—how to achieve central coordination of all phases of the program and how to create a broader Canadian industrial research and development supporting base.
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AMERICAS

Mexico Pushes to Shape Talent, Facilities

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