Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cone atop the Able-Star snuggled the Navy's 223-lb. Transit II-A navigation satellite, a sphere 36 in. in diameter. Transit was the rocket's principal passenger. But with it went a satellite hitchhiker: a 42-lb., 20-in. globe stuffed with instruments to measure solar radiation...
...taken aloft by the U.S.'s ill-fated Vanguard, it was left forlornly on earth when the Vanguard program was discontinued. Rescued by Transit, it is now on a beautiful orbit that will probably keep it up for 50 years. Its instruments are sending information about solar ultraviolet and X rays, which do not pass through the earth's atmosphere but have effects on its upper layers. Data from the Cinderella satellite may explain radio blackouts and some kinds of weather...
...frenzy of transcendental hyperbole, Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: "In climes beyond the solar road, this planet is probably not called Earth, but Shakespeare." Even a simple solar observer could supply Emerson with startling evidence this summer that all the world is, or shortly will be, a Shakespearean stage...
...Boosted away from earth by an Atlas missile and two smaller upper-stage rockets, the moon satellite will weigh 350-400 Ibs. It will be spin-stabilized by ten small rockets and will get electric power for its instruments and controls from four paddle-wheels covered with 8,800 solar cells. All this has become standard U.S. practice. What is novel about the moon orbiter is a restartable engine technique for on-course guidance...
...where will this inquiry lead? Space scientists consider the question rather ridiculous. No one, they say, could have foreseen what would happen when 16th century astronomers looked out at the solar system and decided that the sun does not revolve around the earth. But out of that bold assault on old and in correct ideas grew the modern science that has enabled man to outgrow his planet. In the past three years, man's knowledge of his universe has increased more than in the centuries between Galileo and Sputnik I. What tomorrow may hold overwhelms the imagination...