Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth's first man-made satellite is nearing the end of the planning stage. Last week the National Academy of Sciences released information about the small, short-lived artificial moon that will be shot into an orbit during the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). The launching vehicle will be a three-stage rocket. The first stage, whose rocket motor will have 27,000 lbs. of thrust, will take off from the Air Force's missile test base at Cape Canaveral, Fla. About two minutes after takeoff, it will have traveled about 40 miles, and will be traveling...
...orbit selected for the satellite is 40° from the equator, and the rocket will be fired toward the southeast to take advantage of the earth's rotation. Instead of following a true circle, which would keep it at a single level in the earth's high atmosphere, the satellite will move in an ellipse (oval), rising to 800 miles altitude, then descending to 200 miles. It will pass around the earth every 90 minutes, and since the earth will be turning beneath it, the satellite will pass over different areas during each circuit. It will eventually cover...
...density. The satellite's rate of slowdown and change of orbit will yield information about the high atmosphere...
Before departing for the satellite orbit, Tenley will participate in the German competition at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. After her trip to Czechoslovakia and Poland, she plans to give exhibitions in Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, Paris, and London before starting home...
...Army hospital during World War II, following a spinal injury during flight training. Flat on his back in the hospital, he took up drawing and painting; the play of light on the ceiling became one of his favorite themes. Invalided out of the Army, he gravitated into the orbit of San Francisco's abstract-expressionist movement, headed by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and David Park. Among Francis' student contemporaries: John Hultberg, 33, first prizewinner in last year's Corcoran Biennial (TIME, May 2 et seq.), and Lawrence Calcagno, 39 (TIME...