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...launching rocket, which reportedly is poised on its pad at Canaveral, is an 88-foot, three-stage affair. It carries an 85-pound payload, consisting of the satellite with some 25 pounds of instrumentation...
ROCKET ENGINE of 1.5 million Ibs. thrust, enough to send big payload to the moon, will be built by North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division. Under new Army contract, company will put together a cluster of eight engines, using Thor and Jupiter components. Engine will be ready for tests by late 1959. Rocketdyne also won recent Air Force contract for 1,000,000-lb.-thrust engine (TIME...
...body of a long-range missile lives only for its nose. Once shot into space, the nose, with its payload of thermonuclear explosive, speeds on alone, and its problem becomes re-entry into the atmosphere. U.S. missilemen need nose cones that will not burn up from friction as they plummet earthward in a long arc at up to 16,000 m.p.h...
...engine, says Rocketdyne, would open new possibilities. Combined with appropriate secondary stages, it could put a 20,000-lb. satellite in a polar orbit 1,000 miles high. It could carry 6,200 Ibs. of payload around the moon, 2,000 Ibs. around Mars. With proper auxiliary apparatus it could land a 1,600-lb. payload gently on the moon, or a 400-lb. payload on Mars. Yoked together, four of these engines should be capable of putting man into space along with enough of his natural environment to keep him alive...
...orbiting mass of Sputnik III (official name: 1958 Delta) may not be more than dog-carrying Sputnik II, which remained attached to its rocket. The Russians gave the weight of Sputnik II's payload as 1,120 Ibs., but the whole assembly, including the rocket, was about 84 ft. long, and U.S. scientists believe that it may have weighed 7,000 Ibs. Sputnik III is probably as heavy all told, but may not be heavier...