The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

180 Haruka
flight. By the end of 1965, HARP had fired more than a
hundred missiles to heights of over 80 km. In November
19, 1966, the Army Ballistics Research Laboratory used a
HARP gun to launch an 84-kg Martlet to an altitude of
179 km—a world record for a fired projectile that still
stands. 37,94, 207 See space cannon.
Haruka
Alternative name of HALCA; “haruka” is Japanese for
“far away.”
Haughton-Mars Project
An ongoing NASA-led international field program to
study the Haughton meteorite crater on Devon Island in
the Canadian high arctic and to use the crater’s environment
to learn how best to explore Mars, by testing robotic
and human exploration technologies and strategies.
HCMM (Heat Capacity Mapping Mission)
A NASA satellite that produced thermal maps of the
atmosphere and studied dust and liquid droplets in the
upper atmosphere. Also known as AEM-1.
Launch
Date: April 26, 1978
Vehicle: Scout D
Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base
Orbit: 560 × 641 km × 97.6°
Mass: 134 kg
HEAO (High Energy Astrophysical Observatory)
A series of three very large scientific satellites launched by
NASA, beginning in 1977, to carry out detailed observations
of the sky at short wavelengths, from ultraviolet to
gamma rays. (See table, “HEAO Missions.”)
Haughton-Mars Project An investigator on a field geology traverse at Haughton Crater, Devon Island, wearing the upper torso of
the Hamilton-Sundstrand advanced space exploration concept suit. NASA Haughton-Mars Project/Pascal Lee