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Only the day before the phone call, the U.S. had launched its eighth successful satellite, Discoverer II. It blasted from its launching pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, its nose fitted with a 160-lb. capsule, its second stage jammed with equipment measuring the satellite's ability...
Pinpoint. Discoverer II, cruising on its elliptical pole-to-pole course at 17,000 m.p.h. (ranging from 220 miles to 152 miles from the earth), was to have launched its capsule over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii on its 17th orbit. A retrorocket would slow it down to force its...
Discoverer Launched
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--America's second Discoverer satellite roared southward into polar orbit yesterday, setting the stage for a sigantic game of aerial catch in which planes may try to snatch its parachuting nose cone from the air.
But something went wrong. A Navy range ship stationed 900 miles to the south reported only weak signals from the bird passing overhead. Then came silence. The elaborate Air Force tracking system, set up across the North Pacific especially for the Discoverer series, heard nothing for 1 hr. 30 min...