Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, before Venus becomes too crowded, earthlings might begin to build space cities-at first in orbit around the earth, then around the sun, perhaps using the minerals of the asteroid belt. But soon, even these resources will be exhausted, and the solution may well be to dismantle the giant planet Jupiter. How? Berry recalls a mind-boggling scheme to speed up Jupiter's rotation enough to tear off chunks of the planet; they would then be assembled in a thick band in orbit around the sun. The debris would reflect useful solar energy back toward earth and could...
...most stable points always lie in the moon's orbit around the earth, at a distance of 240,000 miles ahead of the moon and 240,000 miles behind...
...worry that if war ever came, our enemy might be able to destroy our Semyorka before we could get it into the air. The rocket was fired from a launching pad which looked like a huge tabletop and could easily be detected by reconnaissance planes or satellites in orbit around the earth...
When a small, drum-shaped satellite was maneuvered into orbit 22,300 miles above the equator last week, a new era in communications, and communications-industry competition, began. The "bird," called Westar I, is the U.S.'s first commercial domestic satellite,* and the first of two to be launched by Western Union. By late summer, Westar will bounce back to receiving stations on earth such signals as twelve separate color television programs or up to 14, 000 private-line telephone calls-and charge bargain rates for the service...
...also has noticed the opportunity. It has been using Canada's Anik II satellite to provide Alaska with telephone and TV service, and plans to put at least two domsats into orbit to serve the rest of the U.S., starting in 1975. Robert J. Angliss, RCA vice president for services, shrugs off his company's biggest problem: "AT&T hasn't been subjected to a truly competitive environment," he says. "We're used to competition and prepared...