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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 11 months in orbit, a satellite telescope designed here has mapped 7 per cent of the sky and is still sending back new information on ultra-violet light from distant stars. Analysis of data already received from the satellite has yielded several results...
Robert J. Davis '51, associate of the Harvard College Observatory and director and designer of the orbiting telescope called Project Celescope, said he has reached two important conclusions from the data analyzed so far. He discovered that "Diffuse nebulae-large interstellar hydrogen gas clouds in which stars are formed-are brighter than we can easily explain...
...Failures in the satellite are occurring as predicted, 'Davis said. "Of the four telescope cameras, three are still operating and two are producing reliable data," he added. Before Project Celescope was launched from Cape Kennedy, scientists gave it a 70 per cent chance of lasting one year. The current condition of the cameras indicates that the telescope will operate for at least part of a second year...
Steinberg wanted Pergamon for the 135 scientific journals that it publishes -solid assets for a Leasco data bank. "Over the years you build up an immense file of information," he says. "We can provide instant retrieval for that information." Presumably, Steinberg would like to sell this information directly to companies, governments and educational institutions in the U.S. and abroad...
...charges. He could undercut IBM's prices because he was willing to risk depreciating the computers over eight instead of four years, gambling successfully on a longer useful life of the equipment. From this base he moved into related fields, buying a container-leasing company and developing software, data and time-sharing operations...