Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yearlong, 125,000-mile performance in which he applied the lessons he had learned at Versailles. "If you use the lash," he said, "if you constrict Japanese economic opportunity, you will create a peace that can only lead to bitter animosity and in the end drive Japan into the orbit of Russia...
...Dead last going into the first turn at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, Mrs. Halina Braunstein's three-year-old colt Royal Orbit, a 7-to-1 shot, swung wide at the head of the stretch, put on a great burst of speed, romped home a comfortable four lengths ahead to win the 83rd running of the Preakness Stakes and $136,200 for his joyful owner...
...DELTA ROCKET will be made by Douglas Aircraft under $24 million contract. Delta, a nonmilitary rocket that will use many military components, will put 250-lb. payload into orbit 300 miles above earth, will be used until bigger booster rockets capable of launching payloads of several tons are ready...
...Allen's conclusions were confirmed when Pioneer IV soared past the moon and into orbit around the sun. Its tiny, 1-lb. radio transmitter, which was followed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory's receiving stations for 400,000 miles, reported that the outer radiation belt does not die off evenly. Beyond it are irregular bursts of radiation that may be clouds of electrons and protons arriving fresh from the sun. Such invisible clouds in space may prove serious hazards for future deep-space voyagers...
Among Van Allen's immediate interests is a 20-lb. satellite scheduled for launching next fall. If all goes well, it will settle into a slim, elliptical orbit, soaring out six earth radii (24.000 miles) at apogee. It should stay up for hundreds of years, and it will have solar batteries to keep its radio voices alive for a long time. Its duty will be to report continuously on the radiation belt, study how it is affected by sunspots and other solar eruptions. Its fluctuations may have important effects on the earth's weather...