Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia opens a new satellite era by lofting two pay loads into earth orbit...
...alike satellites carried aloft by Columbia on its fifth voyage. The other, called Anik C-3 and owned by Telesat Canada, which runs that country's satellite communications, was launched with equal ease a day later. Both satellites are among the most advanced examples of electronic wizardry in orbit. About 21 ft. long, 7 ft. wide and weighing 1,300 lbs. apiece, excluding their boosters, they will provide thousands of new channels for relaying information through space, from voice communications to television, from business data to "talk" between computers...
...just as the space program was beginning to mature--and the same year that John H. Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit the earth--Hoffman graduated from Scars dale High School. At Amherst College, Hoffman followed his scientific bent, majoring in Astronomy, and graduating first in his class,summa cum laude. Then, without skipping a beat, Hoffman arrived at Harvard to embark on three years of gamma ray research. This work took him as far away as Argentina, where he experimented with a balloon-borne gamma-ray observatory that he designed and built...
...scientists directly. The end goal is attaining a thorough understanding of how the space shuttle operates Because astronauts may spend as much as a year dealing with one particular system, each man tends to develop an area or two of expertise Hoffman has written a training manual on the Orbital Maneuvering System, which is one component of a complex guidance system that helps to control and steer the shuttle in orbit...
Although the space walk was scrubbed, Columbia accomplished its primary goals: Eating as a carrier then a launch platform for two communications satellites. The satellites were deployed on flight days one and two. Their own rockets then sent them to their "Stationery" orbit 22,300 miles above the equator...