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Helios solar flight history12/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The twin solar probes, the first probes built outside the U.S. Helios-involved personnel by the German workers when preparing the twin probes for launch here at the Cape. About 500 of them were distributed to U.S. The printed covers were mainly provided by MBB and their partner DFVR company of the West German space agency. It's a cover issue of MBB, the spacecraft builders in West Germany at the time, for the Helios-B launch. The blue rubber stamped cover was mainly provided by a German aerospace company along with the American ITT firm, both working together on the Helios project, in creating their own "official" contractor cover.Īnother "official-type" cover would be the colorful Helios emblem cachet. But there is another story to be told about the Helios cachet affair at Kennedy, perhaps though, it could be shared at a later time. If so, my apologies to Bob for bringing up the topic again. I believe regular contributor Bob McLeod may have already ran a SCOTW column or feature about the official Helios cachet affair. The special rubber stamp cachet release was not publicly announced by NASA's Mail and Distribution Services in advance, therefore, the incident did cause a space agency or federal investigation concerning certain philatelic practices here at Kennedy Space Center. Only 1400 of them were processed at the KSC HQS Bldg. Three of the depicted covers with the black rubber stamp "HELIOS" impression are from KSC-NASA and considered official NASA cachets. 10, 1974, more than 13 months before the Helios-2 launch. It was indeed an exciting place to be here on the Florida Space Coast in being able to witness and report on many historical space feats during NASA's second golden decade- era of the 1970's.īelow are "official-type" covers in some way or another for both the Helios flights, with the first launch of Helios-1 on Dec. The Helios/Titan 3E launches from the Cape in 1974/76 were some of my first news media assignments as a teenage rookie space reporter. Good to see, John, the SCOTW feature about Helios-2. Baleares - SPAINĪ cover issued by JPL stamp club pmk in Pasadena and signed by Dr. The Goddard Space Flight Center Stamp Club serviced 800 covers for this mission and sold out. Helios Project Manager, Gilbert Ousley Assistant Program Managers, Charles White and William Witt and Project Scientist, James Trainor. The cover shown above was autographed by U.S. experiments and other support for a total of about $80 million. The United States paid for the two launch vehicles and their support, tracking and data acquisition services, the three U.S. Germany provided seven experiments plus command and data acquisition costs for the German ground stations. Germany paid all spacecraft costs, which included the price of two flight units, a prototype and thermal, structural and engineering models. The cost of two Helios missions including spacecraft and launch vehicles was about $180 million. The Helios Project was a joint project with Germany. This week's Space Cover commemorates the launch of the HELIOS-B spacecraft aboard Titan Centaur launch vehicle #5 on January 15, 1976. Space Cover of the Week, Week 419, May 27, 2017 ![]() Profile | register | preferences | faq | search The aircraft leveled off at F元40 and continued on its programmed route.Space Cover 419: Helios-B Launch - collectSPACE: Messages During the climb, at an aircraft altitude of 18 200 ft, the passenger oxygen masks deployed in the cabin. Thereafter, there was no response to radio calls to the aircraft. Several communications between the Captain and the Operations Centre took place in the next eight minutes concerning the above problems and ended as the aircraft climbed through 28 900 ft. As the aircraft climbed through 16 000 ft, the Captain contacted the company Operations Centre and reported a Take-off Configuration Warning and an Equipment Cooling system problem. The aircraft was cleared to climb to F元40 and to proceed direct to RDS VOR. The aircraft eventually ran out of fuel and crashed.“On 14 August 2005, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft, registration number 5B-DBY, operated by Helios Airways, departed Larnaca, Cyprus at 06:07 h for Prague, Czech Republic, via Athens, Hellas. All 121 passengers and crew were killed in the crash, making it the deadliest in Greek history.The Boeing 737-300 aircraft departed Cyprus with an improper pre-flight pressurization configuration, which lead to pilot incapacitation due to hypoxia. On August 14, 2005, Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain while on a flight from Larnaca, Cyprus. ![]()
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