Word: meteorically
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Whipple said that the danger of punctures from comets is "not serious." A meteor-buffer device, invented by him several years ago, would solve the problem by providing the spaceship with a "second skin," which could be thrown off when punctured...
...rocket that flies upward just as a rocket should-and then comes back to earth too fast for its own good. See SCIENCE, Man-Made Meteor...
...while it turned down and fired its final stages. The last stage is small, certainly not big enough to be seen at that distance under ordinary circumstances, but when the X-17 struck through the cloud deck, it was moving so fast that it had become a man-made meteor, brilliantly visible 80 miles away. Most of its plunging metal must have vaporized...
Several hundred usable meteor trails are formed per hour, but since each trail can be used for only one second, the transmitter has to send its message fast. This it does by an electronic mechanism which stores the message and sends it in a "burst" less than one second long. The receiving station has an apparatus that stores the burst and plays it out slowly as an understandable message...
...Janet system may be specially valuable for far-northern Canada. There ordinary radio communications are often fouled up by atmospheric irregularities connected with the northern lights, but signals reflected from meteor trails are largely unaffected. First chance at the new apparatus will go to Canada's armed services and to those of her allies. Civilians may get theirs later...