Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes well, the unmanned laboratory of intricate instruments should reach the area of the moon Monday night, then back toward a vast, cigar-shaped orbit around the earth...
...capabilities of a mere manned weapon. At its Mach 3 speeds and ultra-high altitudes, it makes an inexpensive, i.e., retrievable, launching platform for earth satellites: it could give the space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first-stage launching vehicle for the man-carrying Mercury capsule. Even beyond its military capabilities, the Valkyrie could well become the answer for commercial-transport operators, who already visualize Mach 3 passenger service in the future...
Along with all this went a persistent rumor that Red China was determined to fire a rocket that was not a toy-a Russian-supplied missile that might put a Chinese satellite in orbit around the earth. If the rocket failed, there was speculation that Red China might explode an Abomb, also borrowed from the Russians. One way or another, Red China this week plans to overawe its Asian neighbors and to serve notice on the West that it is a nation with the ambitions, if not the substance, of a first-rank power...
...upper stages for an Army Redstone that the J.P.L. men insisted would put up a satellite. But not until the Navy's Vanguard fizzled on the sands of Cape Canaveral were they allowed to show what they could do-and redeemed U.S. prestige by flinging Explorer I into orbit. Since then, J.P.L.'s spinning clusters have launched three successful satellites, including the U.S. moon probe (Pioneer IV, which is now orbiting...
...wake of the Russian moon triumph, U.S. spacemen had two failures and one success last week. A Jupiter rocket blew up, and a Thor Able navigation satellite failed to orbit. The bright spot was the last of the much-criticized Vanguards, which put a 50-lb. payload in a high orbit expected to last 30 years or more...