Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Almost inevitably, space science was the glamour science. The U.S. sent into orbit satellites Tiros I and Tiros II, which observed the earth's weather from above and sent back thousands of cloud-pattern pictures that are revolutionizing meteorology. The U.S.'s Courier I-B showed what can be done by a satellite packed with electronic equipment and acting as a relay station for forwarding floods of messages almost instantaneously around the curve of the earth. Echo I, the 100-ft. balloon satellite, which is still a striking naked-eye spectacle in the sky, showed the value of a large...
Allen Van Fossen, city editor of the Courier Post that serves Camden and the southern end of the state, and Ken Rhodes, political reporter for the Atlantic City Press, both agree that voters in their areas will stick pretty closely to former voting patterns. This, both men believe, will make the race very close...
Prodigious Appetite. The most important items in Courier iB are five tape recorders, one of them handling voice and the other four (some are standbys) recording and transmitting high-speed Teletype messages. Soon after the satellite went into orbit, it recorded a taped message from President Eisenhower that was sent up to it while it was passing over the Army's communications laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J. When Courier iB approached Puerto Rico, a Signal Corps radio at Salinas commanded it to repeat the President's words. This it duly did, and the message was forwarded by conventional...
With this ceremonial off its chest, the satellite really got to work. Whenever it passed over Fort Monmouth or Salinas, the Signal Corps loaded it with hundreds of thousands of words of Teletype messages, including space-filling test items such as the text of the Constitution of the U.S. Courier's appetite is prodigious. During the 14 minutes that it stays within range of a ground station, it can ingest the 773,693 words of the King James Version of the Bible...
...Courier 1B, however successful, is only an experimental job. It communicates with two stations only, and its orbit (500 miles perigee. 750 miles apogee) is too low to bring it in range of all parts of the earth. The Signal Corps plan is to supplant it eventually by three communications satellites spaced around the earth on once-per-day orbits 22.000 miles up. At this altitude each will stay fixed above its own part of the rotating earth. Anyone wanting to send the King James Version-or any message of similar length -from Port Said to Las Vegas or Tokyo...