Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Office of Naval Research said today it has determined the exact cause of Friday's failure to launch a Vanguard satellite rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., but that the details cannot be made public...
Most radars can cope with this fairly simple trick, so well-furnished bombers will probably carry decoys to mislead sophisticated radars. When the bombers have been illuminated and are likely to be attacked, they will launch small, fast missiles with transmitters that have been tuned to copy the reflected signals of the enemy's radar or with radar-reflecting devices that make them look bigger than they are. Such a decoy is hard to distinguish from a real bomber, and an attacking interceptor or missile is apt to "lock onto" it and let the bomber escape. Nature thought...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Another effort to launch the Vanguard rocket will be made today and the deputy director of the project said last night there is "a good chance" that it will boost the American "moon" into orbit around the world. The time of launching was not announced as of last night...
WITH these lines, TIME'S Music section last year concluded a story about the famed-and-furious soprano's latest fracas at the Met. Last week Diva Callas was indeed in Dallas, helping to launch the city's top-notch new opera company and give a concert. On hand to witness the historic meeting between the Lone Star State and the stately star of opera was TIME Music Researcher Dorothea Bourne. For a report on how the limerick came true, see Music, Callas in Dallas...
...even formulated solid concepts for countering ballistic missiles. Far more demanding than the anti-missile itself is development of the fully integrated and highly automatic system required-in the limited time available -to detect an ICBM on its way. track it, predict its trajectory and, at the proper instant, launch an intercept missile with nuclear or thermonuclear warhead. And what is the proper instant? When the missile is still in outer space? Or after it has slowed within the atmosphere? How will the system operate if a Hydra-headed missile rains down multiple charges or decoys? Or takes aerodynamic evasive...