Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Eniwetok as part of a research program called Project Far Side, burst into outer space, beyond the 580 miles of the Soviet satellite, beyond the 625-mile record set by the Army Jupiter, with preliminary instrument studies indicating the rocket may have soared 4,000 miles (distance from earth to moon: 238,857 miles...
Sputnik last week beeped its last. The voice from space had been weakening for several days, and was sometimes interrupted. Finally it stopped altogether, and Russian, British and U.S. radio listeners reported that the satellite was circling silently around the earth. Its batteries lasted three weeks, just as the Russians predicted soon after Sputnik first took to space...
...orbit is now fairly well known, both to Russian and non-Russian scientists. According to the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., the satellite follows a slightly elliptical track that carries it up 480 miles above the earth. Then it swoops down to about 140 miles, a decline of three miles since launching. Air resistance is slowly reducing Sputnik's energy and making it follow a lower and therefore faster orbit. When it was first tracked, it completed its circuit of the earth in 96.20 minutes. After 326 trips (nearly 9,000,000 miles), it now does...
Several Moscow sources claim that Russia will shoot a new and larger Sputnik into an orbit around the earth to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution...
...original Russian satellite is now circling in a path which favors viewing it from the far northern and far southern parts of the earth, where no Moonwatch teams are present. It cannot be seen in the Boston area...