Word: iva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-nosed rocket that rose from its pad at Cape Canaveral last week contained the most practical crew of explorers yet launched into space: a three-part package of instrument-crammed satellites. Heftiest part of the load (175 lbs.) was Transit IVA, latest of the Navy's navigation satellites, which looked like a bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller...
...Transit IVA, which was built for the Bureau of Naval Weapons by the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, is the Navy's fourth and most significant step toward establishing a system of satellites from which ships and airplanes can determine their position anywhere on earth (TIME, April 25, 1960). None of the earlier transits worked very well, but the first signals from Transit IVA promise that it will do far better...