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...Kraus of Ohio State University. Dr. Kraus reported that a satellite speeding through the outer fringe of the atmosphere trails an ionized wake that can reflect certain kinds of radio waves. Teaming up with his friend Perry Klein, another teen-age New York ham, "Ray" Soifer wrote the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge for detailed schedules of satellite orbits. Whenever a satellite, U.S. or Russian, passed at a reasonable distance, the boys tried to bounce radio waves off its wake...
Within the new addition there will be complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by the Smithsonian to track earth satellites...
Those who will be present at the include ceremonies will include Reynolds; Donald H. Menzel, Director of the College Observatory; Fred L. Whipple, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; the architects from the firm of Griswold, Boyden, Wylde & Ames; and officials of the Department of Buildings and Grounds...
...project will be financed largely by rental from Smithsonian, a private company held in trust by the United States Congress. The remainder of the funds will be obtained from sources other than the Program for Harvard College, according to Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...with a glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...