Word: shakeshaft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio transmitter of Sputnik 1 worked for three weeks, but the transmitter of Sputnik II went silent after seven days. Astronomer John Shakeshaft of Cambridge, England watched it pass overhead but got no radio signal. This might mean that the apparatus had broken down, but a statement by the Russians that they had completed their observations hinted that the stoppage was intended...
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