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...Cambridge Moonwatch team appealed yesterday for more student volunteers to aid the Smithsonian Observatory in watching the two Russian satellites...
...last definite observation of the rocket was received by the radar telescope in Palo Alto, California early Saturday evening. At about the same time, a Smithsonian moonwatch team in Los Altos saw a bright object in the sky, which Whipple said, "could well have been the rocket starting to glow as it neared...
...Until we have further evidence and information, we can say no more," Hynek stated. "We are awaiting information with interest, and we have not as yet alerted the Moonwatch team for a special death watch...
Whipple and Hynek express complete satisfaction with their observation system to date. Moonwatch teams were at an initial disadvantage in that they were located in positions from which the projected American satellite would be visible early in its life, but which were out of the range of visibility for the Russian satellite for about a week after its launching...
...network of observation posts, Smithsonian officials also point out, is much more extensive than the Russian system. The Soviets have even expressed a desire to purchase some American photographic tracking equipment and have modeled their Moonwatch telescopes closely after the U.S. prototype. The implication is that once the U.S. gets a satellite up, it will be in a better position to gain scientific information from it than the Soviets are with theirs...