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Russia's second earth satellite, launched into its celestial orbit Saturday will not be visible in the United States until early December...
...speed, too, is different. "II" moves at 17,840 m.p.h. compared to 18,000 m.p.h. for the original. Muttnik, which has a longer orbit, consequently takes 103.7 minutes to circle the globe, compared to 96.2 minutes for its predecessor. The most impressive difference, though, is in weight: 184 pounds...
Scientists at the Smithsonian, however, remained markedly calm in the face of the latest Russian achievement. Admitting that Muttnik is "definitely an improvement over the first one," John S. Rinehart, an associate director of the observatory, maintained that the actual force needed to lift the rocket into orbit was not much greater than that used a month...
Whipple, again basing his predictions on announcements from Radio Moscow and from the Associated Press, indicated that the object's orbit might be turned in such a way that it would be visible at twilight this evening. Whipple said that it would be at least a few more days before it would be "a morning object." Moscow has announced that the satellite is broadcasting, as did the first one, on 20 and 40 megacycles alternately...
Whipple added that the second rocket, although in a more elliptic orbit than the first, would probably take "a comparable period of time" to be affected by the atmosphere drag which is slowly destroying Sputnik I's rocket. Meanwhile, he said, "Curly," the first dog in space, is comparatively safe...