Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Then down from the satellite over a TV channel came a picture of northeastern North America, spotted with white swirls of cloud. Fort Monmouth experts made hasty versions of the picture (which hurt its quality) and sent them to Washington by messenger. There Dr. Keith Glennan, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, took it to the White House and showed it to President Eisenhower...
Tiros was now ready for business, and business soon came. At Fort Monmouth, N.J., a 60-ft. dish antenna of the Army Signal Corps picked up the satellite's radio beacon as it came over the curve of the earth. Up from the ground went a coded signal that made the satellite's innards spring into frantic activity. A shutter opened and closed. Electronic pulses flashed through tangles of hair-thin wire...
Electronic Images. The Tiros' electronic wizardry was accomplished with apparatus designed by the Army's Fort Monmouth scientists, working closely with Radio Corp. of America. Tiros' primary parts are two TV camera tubes, each ½ in. in diameter, that take up to 32 still pictures, one every 30 seconds. The pictures, which are at first electronic images on the tube's screen, can be scanned and transmitted directly, or they can be recorded on magnetic tape. The satellite's masters on earth can tell it what to do. From Fort Monmouth, for example, they...
...sends his signal, must calculate when the cameras will be looking at something interesting. The satellite's orbit shifts slowly around the earth, allowing all parts that do not lie farther north than France to be photographed. On the second day of its orbiting, it sent to Fort Monmouth cloud-pattern pictures of the Mediterranean region...