Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precious data come from a 440-lb. satellite observatory launched last week from Cape Canaveral into an orbit averaging 355 miles high. The satellite, called OSO (for Orbiting Solar Observatory), is a gadget-lovers' dream, the most complex object launched into space so far. Yet at last report it was working perfectly...
...center of the drum is a semicircular "sail" covered on one side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady 30 r.p.m...
...more eyes (electrical light sensors ) than any spider. When it went into orbit, some of the eyes searched for the sun. and nitrogen discharged from a bottle in the drum moved the drum's axis until it was perpendicular to the sun's direction. Next, a motor on the central shaft started turning the sail so that its solar cells pointed steadily...
When Alexander Wiley asked him about his "thoughts on your faith," Glenn might easily have faltered, or given an embarrassed or fatuous reply, but his forthright answer won an ovation from the audience. "I can't say that while in orbit you sit there and pray," he said. "It's a very busy time . . . My religion is not a fire-engine type of religion-not one to be called on in emergency and then put God back in the woodwork. My peace has been made with my maker for a number of years, so I had no particular...
Shares In Orbit. Mercury's success has sent McDonnell's shares scooting from 1961's low of 22½ to last week's 48. James McDonnell, who controls his company with 27% of its stock (worth $44 million), runs a one-man show. But he prides himself on good relations with "the team," boasts that he has never laid off an executive, and even gives his workers a paid holiday on United Nations...