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After two days of searching, a low-flying joint U.S.-Canadian "sniffer" plane detected what Canadian National Defense Minister Barnett Danson called "an extremely dangerous" level of radiation. A U.S. intelligence official told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "Obviously, some part of the satellite survived the burnout to hit the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cosmos 954: An Ugly Death | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...zealots, seem as much a cult as a fellowship. They have formed hundreds of societies. Many drive hundreds or even thousands of miles to converge with other vanners at picnicky socials that are held all over the country. Such a bash is known as a "truckin" or a "burnout" or a "push" or-ah!-a "van-go." Invariably, a key feature of the outing is the mutual admiration of vans and the adorning artwork. Some paint jobs cost $3,000. News of ever fresh extravagances circulates in 25 or so magazines devoted to vanning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: There's No Madness Like Nomadness | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...usual manner of space publicists, the Russian scientists insisted that, before the burnout, "the planned program" had been accomplished and "the information obtained yielded new data for manned space flight in the near future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Goodbye Pchelka | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Except that Observation Island lay on the sea's surface, this was the closest test yet to an underwater launching of Polaris on its urgent march toward operational deployment by late 1960. Premature burnout of the second stage cut 100 miles from the missile's programed flight, but the first complete test of the system's complex navigational, guidance and fire-control equinment was a success. Fort night ago, the Navy revealed, a dummy ("Dolphin") missile was ejected successfully by the submerged atomic sub George Washington, which will attempt an underwater, null Polaris shot in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Blast-Off at Sea | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...amount of gas passing through the whistle. The volume of sound will decrease, and so will the fuel's burning rate. If the valve is manipulated efficiently by some pressure-sensing instrument, it will keep the hot gas inside the rocket at constant pressure from take-off to burnout. Rocket walls can be made lighter, and the bird itself will fly higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Control by Sound | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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