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Wednesday August 28, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7
Production of
air-defense
gun scuttled
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defense Sec
retary Caspar Weinberger said
Tuesday he was scuttling production
of a new air-defense gun on which
the Army has sunk $1.8 billion, be
cause it doesn’t work much better
than the weapons the service has
now.
Before Weinberger’s decision, the
Army had planned to spend another
$3 billion on the weapon, a twin-can
non gun unit mounted atop a tank
chassis and known formally as the
Division Air Defense gun or Divad.
“The independent operational
tests demonstrated that the system’s
performance does not effectively
meet the growing (Soviet) military
threat,” Weinberger said.
“The tests demonstrated also that
while there are marginal im
provements that can be made to the
Divad, these are not significant com
pared to the capability of current air
defense weapons and therefore, not
worth the additional cost,” he said.
The cancellation of a weapon pro
gram, particularly after production
has begun, is rare.
Although the Sgt. York has been
plagued with development problems
almost from its inception, Weinberg
er’s decision caught many Army
leaders by surprise.
They had argued privately the
weapon was worth preserving be
cause additional improvements
could be made, and that (he Army
needed a radar-directed gun that
could operate at night and in bad
weather.
The Sgt. York has been under de
velopment for more than seven
years. The Ford Aerospace & Com
munications Corp. received a con
tract in 1981 to supply up to 618 Di
vad units. The company, which
assembles the Sgt. York at a plant in
Newport Beach, Calif., had deliv
ered 65. Weinberger said he had or
dered the Army not to accept any
more of the guns.
Ford Aerospace said Tuesday the
Sgt. York had met the “contractual
specification requirements estab
lished by the Army.” The firm also
suggested it might offer a replace
ment itself.
Designed to protect armored col
umns and troops from air attack, the
Sgt. York consists of two 40 mm can
non — mounted atop a modified
M48 tank chassis — linked to a spe
cial computer and radar.
What’s up
is meeting
Friday
MSC Travel Committee is showing the film “We’ve Never
Been Licked” in Rudder Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday
TAMU International Folk Dance Club
MSC from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Monday
Off-Campus Aggies will hold a spirit rally for off-campus stu
dents at the Grove at 5:30 p.m.
International-Recreational Sports will hold an orientatio
nal meeting for flag football and 16-inch softball officials.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battal
ion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to
desired publication date.
Discovery launched
despite foul weather
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Dis
covery’s astronauts were launched
Tuesday through the worst weather
of the space shuttle program, then
had to rush the release of an Austra
lian satellite to keep it from broiling
in the sun.
“Fantastic,” Mission Control said
after the Aussat satellite was de
ployed a day ahead of schedule. We
all breathed a sigh of relief down he
re.”
“You think you did!” exclaimed
astronaut Mike Lounge with em
phasis on the second “you.”
NASA also decided to go ahead
with the scheduled release later in
the day of another satellite, for the
American Satellite Co. It would be
the first time in the shuttle program
that two satellites were released on a
single day.
The Australian payload, one of
three satellites carried aloft in Dis
covery’s cargo bay, had been sched
uled for launch Wednesday but a
damaged sunshield forced the early
release.
The frame-and-fabric device was
supposed to close like a clamshell
over the satellite in the cargo bay un
til deployment time, but it hung up
in the half-way position as it was
opened for a satellite health check.
Lounge then guided the ship’s 50-
foot robot arm to push it out of the
way, leaving the satellite exposed.
“The Aussat satellite would have
considerable difficulty in the cargo
bay unprotected by a sunshield from
the cold of deep space or from direct
solar radiation,” Mission Control’s
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Brian Welch said. “The satellite has
a very limited lifetime in the bay,
perhaps only a few' more orbits and
at that point it would have serious
problems.”
Once in orbit, satellites rotate con
stantly like meat on a barbecue spit,
preventing any portion from over
heating or getting too cold.
After back-to-back scrubs Satur
day and Sunday, tense launch offi
cials gambled on a break in the
clouds and sent Discovery on its
eight-day mission with a spectacular
liftoff that colored the clouds red,
white and orange. Soon after the lift
off, the pad was obscured by a tor
rential downpour.
“Thanks for getting us up here,”
said commander Joe Engle as the
launch control team’s shift ended.
“Don’t wmrry about this other little
stuff. We’ll get it solved.”
The sunshield frame may have
been bent out of shape by being hit
with a television camera on the shut
tle arm elbow. Llight Director Gary
Coen said the cause had not been de
termined and he did not know if a
crew member had been at fault.
The Aussat satellite is the first of
three intended to provide television
and other communications to the en
tire Australian continent, its off
shore islands and Papua New Gui
nea.
Although the rescue of the $85
million Syncom communications sa
tellite is the glamour part of the
flight, the release of the trio of satel
lites for paying customers has higher
priority and a $40 million delivery
fee.