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Little Curly survived the shock of launching; the Russians reported that she was still alive and apparently well after many times round the earth. One Russian scientist, Professor A. A. Blagonravov, said in Moscow that Little Curly is safe, hinting that means had been provided to bring her back to earth for a second appearance on the Moscow radio. Although not impossible, this would be exceedingly difficult, and official Russian sources have made no such promise. But even if she lives for only a short time, her experiences may help keep the first human space voyagers alive...
...much except the sputnik's weight and speed (about 18,000 m.p.h.). It circles the earth, they say, every 96.2 minutes. The plane of the orbit stands fixed in space while the earth rotates inside it, so successive trips carry the sputnik over different territory. General Anatoly Arkadievich Blagonravov, head of a three-man Russian delegation to last week's satellite convention in Washington, says that it has four radio antennae and that the power of the radio signal is one watt (enough for a U.S. radio ham to talk with Australia). He estimates that the satellite...
...Blagonravov, who was accompanied to Washington by Sergei M. Poloskov and A. M. Kasatskin, is a lieutenant general of artillery in the Red army and a member of the Soviet Academy of Science. He is best known in Russia as an authority on weapons, but he has written a great deal about space travel, and some but not all authorities on Russia believe that he is head of Soviet space rocket research. At 63, he is not likely to be the originator of new and daring technology...
...Navy's Viking research rocket, whose thrust is only 27,000 lbs. Even if working perfectly, a Viking is barely strong enough to place a 21½-lb. satellite on its orbit. There is no margin for less-than-perfect performance. The Russians, according to General Blagonravov, used their most powerful rocket to launch the sputnik. Their launching vehicle must have taken off with at least 200,000 lbs. of thrust...