Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note the Army's Jupiter has reached an altitude higher than Sputnik's orbit. Why isn't the last stage of Jupiter's rocket or missile orbiting about in space...
...started defense spending on the way up one day last week by restoring $170 million lopped off the current research and development budget by Charlie Wilson; he also authorized the Air Force to lift its emergency ceilings on monthly payments to aircraft companies (see BUSINESS). In view of the higher defense spending, said the President, it would require "serious retardations elsewhere" in the budget to hold the overall $70 billion line...
Therefore the prognosis for fiscal 1959 runs like this: 1) revenues, held down by the leveling of business and the cost-squeeze on profits, will not advance beyond current levels of about $73.5 billion a year; 2) spending will hit $72 billion or go higher. As of now, there is talk of a small surplus, but such talk will probably be stilled by the time snow flies...
...second Soviet satellite, officially named 1957 Beta by International Geophysical Year authorities, is much more ambitious than 1957 Alpha (Sputnik I). According to Moscow, it weighs more than six times as much (1,120.8 Ibs.), and it circles on a higher orbit, reaching more than 1,000 miles above the earth at its highest point, and taking slightly longer (1 hr. 43.7 min.) to complete a circuit. The instrumented section is not designed to separate from the casing of the final-stage rocket, as Sputnik I did. This suggests that the rocket can be deliberately turned tail forward...
...same frequencies (40.002 and 20.005 megacycles) that were used by Sputnik I before its batteries died. Professor Boris V. Ukarkin of the Soviet Academy of Sciences promised that the large size of Sputnik II would make it easier to see than Sputnik I, and, even though it travels higher, it should stay in sight considerably longer...