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With 35 U.S. and Soviet satellites having achieved orbit, the worldly-birds have lost some of their gee-whiz excitement. But though the public may be getting jaded, U.S. satellites are just getting really useful. Last week, three years to the day after the Russians launched their era-opening Sputnik I, a U.S. Army communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral with little fanfare, went into orbit and calmly began to receive, store and spew back a stream of voice and Teletype messages sent up from the earth. Courier 1B is a 51-in.. 500-lb. sphere containing...
Prodigious Appetite. The most important items in Courier iB are five tape recorders, one of them handling voice and the other four (some are standbys) recording and transmitting high-speed Teletype messages. Soon after the satellite went into orbit, it recorded a taped message from President Eisenhower that was sent up to it while it was passing over the Army's communications laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J. When Courier iB approached Puerto Rico, a Signal Corps radio at Salinas commanded it to repeat the President's words. This it duly did, and the message was forwarded by conventional...
Courier 1B, however successful, is only an experimental job. It communicates with two stations only, and its orbit (500 miles perigee. 750 miles apogee) is too low to bring it in range of all parts of the earth. The Signal Corps plan is to supplant it eventually by three communications satellites spaced around the earth on once-per-day orbits 22.000 miles up. At this altitude each will stay fixed above its own part of the rotating earth. Anyone wanting to send the King James Version-or any message of similar length -from Port Said to Las Vegas or Tokyo...
...high-power beam concentrated on a satellite might exert enough pressure to nudge it to a new orbit...
...chance, the Journal's executive managing editor is M. (for Michael) Ogden. Just by chance, Providence's M. Ogden was instrumental last January in dropping Dick Tracy from the Journal for good, after taking offense at a particularly unsanitary Gould creation called Flyface, around whose face flies orbit continually. It was after the Journal's action that Gould introduced felonious Poet Ogden to his readers...