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...planet, a gold-plated fiberglass cone weighing 13.4 Ibs., did not compare in weight with the 796-lb. Lunik that the Russians put into solar orbit early in January, but its instruments apparently worked much better. The signal from its tiny transmitter was so strong that the 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England could have followed it 4,000,000 miles into space if its batteries had lasted. The Russians reported that they lost their Lunik's signal (which no one else had followed) at 370,000 miles...
Slowdown. As the gilded cone climbed through the earth's weakening gravitational field, it slowed down. Nineteen hours after launch, it was 190,000 miles from the earth's surface and moving at 4,700 m.p.h. Forty-one hours after launch, it passed the moon's orbit and plunged into translunar space, still moving at 4,525 m.p.h...
Amid the growing uneasiness which grips the world, an almost unnoticed change is taking place in Finland this year. Without riches of the mid-east or the explosiveness of Berlin, the nation whose defense against Russia electrified the world twenty years ago is slowly slipping into the Russian Orbit...
WASHINGTON, March 4--America's Pioneer IV shot past the moon late today and headed for a solar orbit scientists say will last as long as the universe does...
...practical purposes Pioneer already is in orbit around the sun--the pull of solar gravity on the space probe now is greater than that of the earth...