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Since 1950 Western trade with the Communist orbit has been supervised by the Consultative Group, a 15-nation organization whose working committees COCOM and CHINCOM, maintain lists of items that can be marketed to the Soviet European bloc or to Red China, and in what amounts. The U.S. is prepared to negotiate off the stricter Chinese list such items as its fellow members, particularly Britain and Japan, want to remove. As a quid pro quo, and to help narrow the gap between the two sets of controls, some additional items may be added to the list covering the Soviet European...
...omission will make the flight a comparatively crude affair. But valuable information can be gathered about the performance of the third-stage rocket, whose purpose is to start firing about 300 miles above the surface and reach the necessary speed (18,000 m.p.h.) to stay in an orbit around the earth...
Satellites First. The first stage of military space flight after the earth-to-earth missiles will probably be an unmanned reconnaissance satellite. The peaceful, 212-lb. satellite of Project Vanguard will have no military value, but rocket motors exist that can put a much heavier satellite into a permanent orbit. If big enough, it could carry a telescope and a scanning device to send radio pictures of what it sees down to its sponsors. It might also report bursts of heat or light: signs that someone has exploded a nuclear charge or fired a large missile on the far side...
Miss Ward attributed much of the present Suez crisis to the State Department's "complete rebuff" of President Nasser "I am still unconvinced that he wants to become a satellite in the Soviet orbit...
...small satellites have been seen, of course, even with the biggest telescope, but this is not surprising. To stay in an orbit near the earth, a satellite must move so fast that it will flash across the narrow field of an ordinary telescope without making any impression on the photographic plate. To have a good chance of catching a satellite, a telescope would have to have a wide field of view, and it would have to sweep across the sky at about the same speed as the satellite that it is hunting...