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...launching small earth satellites has passed the talking stage. Last week the Department of Defense announced that it has signed a $2,035,033 contract with Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore for the launching vehicle, the three-stage rocket that will set the first satellite in its orbit. General Electric Co. will supply the rocket motor, and other suppliers will be called on as the project develops...
...Their Orbit. Hagerty added that this first U.S. satellite would be a project for peace, not for war. It would be a U.S. contribution to the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), and its explorer's view of sun, moon, planets, stars and space, transmitted down to mankind by telemeters, would be available to all scientists, including the Russians...
Since the nature of the White House announcement had not openly been disclosed, Washington's political reporters, not its science writers, were on hand to get the news. There had been talk about man-made satellites for years, but the pundits were admittedly out of their orbit. They poured out incredulous questions, gasping at many of the answers. Hagerty turned the meeting over to the National Science Foundation's Dr. Alan T. Waterman and the National Academy of Science's Dr. S. Douglas Cornell...
Global Meteorology. As soon as a satellite is circling on its orbit, immediate and practical benefits will flow down from it. Solar radiation, now only partially understood, is responsible for the earth's weather. The additional information reported by a satellite will be of enormous value to meteorologists. So will its reports on the earth's cloud cover. They may result in global weather forecasts good for months ahead. Information on solar rays and particles will clear up many mysteries about the electrified layers in the atmosphere that affect radio transmission...
What hope is left for the space enthusiasts? Using present fuels and the free-fall orbit, says Porter, they may be able soon to set up a man-made earth satellite. But only a compact atomic-powered rocket could build up enough speed without excessive fuel loads to enable men to ignore intricate navigation and steer through the heavens as they choose...