Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project of Space-Flight Prophet Wernher von Braun and his disciples is the creation of an artificial satellite revolving in an orbit 1,000 miles above the earth. Such a satellite would circle the globe every two hours, peeking behind all frontiers. If the nation that operated the satellite felt a need for military action, Von Braun's followers say, it could pulverize any other nation with atom-armed guided missiles shot down from space...
...such a satellite station was presented at a Manhattan meeting of the American Rocket Society. Said London-born Physics Professor L. H. (for Llewellyn Hilleth) Thomas of Columbia: to destroy a satellite would be comparatively easy, and it would cost much less than to place one in its orbit...
...rewarding project for space men, said Oberth, is to set a gigantic mirror revolving on an orbit thousands of miles from the earth. It should be about 100 miles in diameter.* Made of shiny metal foil reinforced with wire, it would spin slowly around a space residence at its hub. Since nothing in a space orbit has any weight, a slight amount of centrifugal force would keep the mirror expanded...
...free world has the capacity to strike an aggressor where it hurts, said Dulles, "the deterrent power of that is sufficient so that you do not need to have local defense all around the 20,000-mile perimeter of the orbit of the Soviet world." With that capacity, he said, the free world can place more reliance on deterring attack and less on being able to stop it everywhere...
...inside it, a dangerous, man-made genie throbs and thrashes. Out of an electric arc springs a swarm of protons (hydrogen nuclei). Powerful forces grab them and speed them down a channel toward the great machine. They sail into the chamber, and the magnet steers them in a circular orbit...