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...Navy last week announced contracts to build a radio telescope costing $60 million. The project has two defense purposes: 1) the telescope's enormous dish antenna, over 400 ft. in diameter, can act as a beam transmitter and bounce powerful radio signals off the moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able...
Litton products have already gone far round the free world. In Turkey, a probing Litton radar antenna reportedly keeps tabs on Soviet missile firings. Across the far north of Canada and Alaska, Litton klystron tubes generate radar beams for the Distant Early Warning line. At almost every sizable U.S. airport, Litton antennas help control flights; in universities, Litton digital desk computers solve calculus jawbreakers. Litton claims to be the nation's biggest seller of desk calculating machines, the broadest supplier of TV replacement transformers (more than 900 different models), one of the two largest makers (along with American Bosch...
Rearing up over the low-lying Tokyo skyline last week was a new steel contraption that to Westerners had a familiar shape. Called the Tokyo TV Tower, it looks like Paris' famed Eiffel Tower, and when a 250-ft. antenna is added to it this fall, it will rise 1,082 ft. above Japan's capital and Tokyo Bay, beating the Eiffel Tower by 65 ft. Designed by Aerodynamics Expert Isamu Kamei to withstand 210-m.p.h. winds at its top and an earthquake twice as violent as the one that leveled Tokyo...
Swim By Instrument. In the narrow Bering Straits between Alaska and Soviet Siberia, Nautilus kept well within U.S. waters, popped up its radar antenna only once for about 30 seconds to take a radar fix. Did the Russians detect them? Anderson thought not. Detouring along Alaska's northern coast to avoid clogged-up ice, Nautilus surfaced for the first time since Pearl Harbor to get a sure fix on a DEW-line radar station, then headed down again into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element...
...vain the Danish government protested to Panama. But on the first day of scheduled operation last month, the weather did better than the government. A fierce storm toppled the big antenna into the sea. Undaunted, Fogh made repairs. He already has contracts worth $292,000 from commercial-time sales. His goal: 800,000 steady listeners and a lot more kroner. Says he happily: "We hope to break the state monopoly and eventually get permission to operate on dry land. After that, we'll build a television transmitter as well...