Word: kingsport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacecraft could do its appointed work. Accurate guidance was needed to match Syncom's orbit to the earth's rotation; it was moving a little too fast, drifting ahead of the earth by about 7.5 degrees of longitude per day. Out on the Navy control ship Kingsport in Lagos harbor, Nigeria, engineers sent radio signals that fired jets of hydrogen peroxide to slow Syncom down. Obediently the satellite changed the direction of its drift, began to move toward its proper position above Brazil...
...station, but during a northward swing it came just near enough for receivers in New Jersey to catch a radio glimpse of it just above the horizon. The scientists listened intently, and were rewarded for a few minutes by voices that had climbed up to Syncom II from Kingsport and had been relayed down to New Jersey. The messages stopped when Syncom II swung south again and sank below the horizon...
...which was launched last February, went into near-perfect orbit, but its electronics system broke down, leaving it useless as a relay station. Last week's successor, Syncom II, did better. As the satellite climbed toward orbit more than two hours after launch, the Navy communications ship Kingsport, anchored at Lagos, Nigeria, called it by microwave radio. Syncom II answered smartly, proving that its electronics gear was healthy. The satellite even bounced a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner back to the Kingsport...
Jockey for Position. Syncom II developed some drift after it went into orbit, as was expected, but in the wrong direction. The Kingsport next ordered Syncom to fire its hydrogen peroxide rocket to correct the slow eastward drift, and actually days will pass before Syncom's delicate guidance apparatus will jockey it into an exactly synchronous orbit. Then it is supposed to swing gently in a north-south figure-eight pattern, crossing the equator over the Atlantic Ocean while radiomen below test how well it can relay messages between distant points on the distant earth...
...scrolls shown this week, Art Director Michael J. Phillips sought a gloss-free paper that would bring out the delicate detail, the color and the appearance of the silk originals. In the end, he had the paper made to his specifications at the Mead Paper Co. in Kingsport, Tenn., and flew down to make sure of the quality. Engravings were made in New York by Len Perskie. Then Phillips was off to Detroit to oversee the reproduction by the Safran Printing Co., which used an offset press to give finer detail. To Phillips, it is all part of the week...