Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towers along landing glide paths, instrument-confusing microwave emissions, occasional rocket launches, and the threat of collision with other planes. Now pilots have something utterly unexpected to contend with. In its latest "Notams" (Notices to Airmen), the Federal Aviation Administration has warned aircraft to keep clear of four laser experiment sites: McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas: a Harvard observatory northwest of Boston: the University of Arizona's Catalina Observatory 20 miles northeast of Tucson: and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Mount Hopkins station 40 miles south of Tucson...
...Laser Off the Beam
...Mailer's laser is off the beam...
Puzzling Boulder. Scientists were equally pleased. Even before the astronauts returned, astronomers at McDonald Observatory in Texas reported that they had managed to bounce laser beams off the newly placed corner reflector at Fra Mauro; such experiments may provide valuable clues to the movements of the earth's crust and the slight wobble of the globe (see following story) as it spins on its axis. The rest of the $25 million package of experiments deployed by the astronauts also performed extremely well under unusually trying circumstances; four days after the instruments were set up in the lunar highlands, there...
...Pave Way is a targeting system using the laser beam. Once an object has been identified, an aircraft equipped with Pave Way can "fix" it with a brilliant laser light, then release bombs that are fitted with special light-seeking devices. The bombs are automatically guided to the laser-illuminated target...