Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tiros was now ready for business, and business soon came. At Fort Monmouth, N.J., a 60-ft. dish antenna of the Army Signal Corps picked up the satellite's radio beacon as it came over the curve of the earth. Up from the ground went a coded signal that made the satellite's innards spring into frantic activity. A shutter opened and closed. Electronic pulses flashed through tangles of hair-thin wire...
Steady Axis. Since Tiros I spins like a top, it is gyroscopically stabilized, keeping its axis pointed in a single direction as it circles the earth. This means that its cameras will point away from the earth much of the time. The ground operator, before he sends his signal, must calculate when the cameras will be looking at something interesting. The satellite's orbit shifts slowly around the earth, allowing all parts that do not lie farther north than France to be photographed. On the second day of its orbiting, it sent to Fort Monmouth cloud-pattern pictures...
...system get a trial. Then he proved that waves from a 4-lb. depth charge exploded 4,000 ft. below the ocean's surface can be heard 1,200 miles away. This communication method is now called SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging), and it can carry a signal across an ocean...
...major criticisms by many a Wall Streeter of the technical approach to the market is that the technicians often cannot agree on what the charts signal. Last month, when the Dow-Jones industrial and rail averages dropped through their previous lows, such classic Dow theorists as Richard Russell held that a bear market was on (TIME, March 14). But another group of Dow theorists, led by E. George Schaefer of Indianapolis, argued that it was a false bear signal: the market was really getting ready to rise to new highs...
...proper trial, it would string the mate up. The trial involves sensational charges and the mate's defense gets into the deeper waters of character. At the same time the play itself gets into deeper waters, and there it eventually drowns. In a clutch of sudden deaths, crucial signal lights, lies whitening into truths, loyalties rusting into funk, and rats deserting a sinking bosun, disbelief noses out tension and playwriting mishaps outnumber maritime accidents...