Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into defense, aerospace, aircraft and electronics. From these fields, U.S. firms are learning to master staggering complexities on technology's frontiers, and to apply the techniques in other areas. With their vast capital and huge home market, U.S. companies routinely risk fortunes beyond Europe's visions to launch promising ventures. RCA gambled $130 million on color television before it began to pay off. Europe is still split over whether to use the French or West German color TV system-and the two are electronically incompatible...
...controversial proposal, which is being evaluated by five U.S. companies under NASA study contracts totaling $490,000, would launch inflatable satellites into synchronous orbits 22,300 miles above the earth. Opened up and inflated, the satellites would take the shape of disks 2,000 ft. in diameter, each with a highly reflective, mirror-like face. Using attitude-control jets, ground controllers could position the space mirrors to direct the reflected rays of the sun down toward the night side of the earth. The reflection could illuminate a circular area approximately 220 miles in diameter with nearly twice the brightness...
Nothing seemed to be too good for Nkrumah in Guinea. He was given a spacious villa by the sea for himself and his 100 Ghanian security guards. There was talk that he would represent Guinea at the United Nations in Manhattan. There was also talk that Guinea would launch an invasion of Ghana to put Nkrumah back in power. Guinea's radio stations broadcast Nkrumah's bellicose "I shall return" promises...
...North, 41° East. Using a computer belonging to a Kettering firm, Perry quickly confirmed that Cosmos 129 had also been launched from a new site. With his students, he plotted its orbital path and determined that it intersected the others at 63° north latitude and 41° east longitude, a point near the town of Plesetsk, about 140 miles south of the White Sea port of Archangel. It was from this site, he was convinced, that all four of the mysterious Cosmos satellites had been launched. Though neither Russia nor any U.S. Government source has officially confirmed existence...
...using an ion engine instead of chemical fuel for deep space acceleration, Stewart believes, scientists will be able to launch outer planet probes with rockets as small as the Atlas-Centaur, or send considerably larger payloads aloft with the Saturn 5. Combined with gravity assists from the planets, the ion engines should allow sophisticated unmanned probes to give man a close look at the outer planets, regions outside the solar system - and even the sun itself...