The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1963, the latest event was in 2008
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
NONE
Military and Classified Programs:
1975 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan 34B, SLC4W, VAFB – MILESTONE: 50 years ago
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
2006 – LM Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars, Mars orbital insertion
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
2008 – LM submits proposal for GOES-R+ satellite family
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1963 – LAUNCH FAILURE: GD Atlas D, 576-B3, VAFB – FAILURE
1966 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A3, SSBN642, ETR
1998 – LAUNCH (2): LM Trident D-5, SSBN736, ETR
1999 – LAUNCH: LM Peacekeeper, LF02, VAFB – MILESTONE: 25 years ago
Other:
NONE
The illustrations today include a diagram of the spacecraft and an artist’s rendering of the spacecraft starting the aero braking process. A photo by MRO is of the Victoria Crater that was taken in 2006 . The rover Opportunity is the tiny dot at the 10 o’clock position. The arrival at Mars for this remarkable spacecraft was 19 years ago. Image and Photo Credits: NASA/JPL/Corby Waste (artist’s conception of aerobraking)/University of Arizona (Victoria crater photo).
Here is the caption for the Victoria crater photo:
This view is a portion of an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on Oct. 3, 2006. The complete image is centered at minus 7.8 degrees latitude, 279.5 degrees East longitude. The range to the target site was 297 kilometers (185.6 miles). At this distance the image scale is 29.7 centimeters (12 inches) per pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects about 89 centimeters (35 inches) across are resolved. The image shown here has been map-projected to 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel and north is up. The image was taken at a local Mars time of 3:30 PM and the scene is illuminated from the west with a solar incidence angle of 59.7 degrees, thus the sun was about 30.3 degrees above the horizon. At a solar longitude of 113.6 degrees, the season on Mars is northern summer.
