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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlas, has scored two hits at a programed initial 500-to 600-mile range. Atlas, U.S. missilery's prime weapon (cost: about $4,000,000 apiece) is fueled with a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene, is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead of megaton dimensions at a speed of about 14,000 m.p.h. to a target five miles in diameter at a 5,500-mile range. Atlas has 300,000 parts, is so thin-skinned that it must be pressurized to stand upright; its three engines, simultaneously ignited on the ground, can generate a total thrust of between...
Much closer to operational status are the U.S.'s "strategic penetration aids," i.e., air-to-ground missiles designed to be lifted almost all the way to target by subsonic 6-47 and 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers, then let fly at supersonic speed at ranges of 100 miles or more to dump hydrogen warheads onto targets. Just about operational is the Air Force's 100-mile, 1,000-m.p.h. Bell Rascal, already in pilot production. North American's Project WS-131B is an experimental supersonic hydrogen-warhead item with a 350-mile range. And Convair...
...According to the scientific principle named for Austrian Physicist Christian Johann Doppler (1803-53), the speed of an object moving toward or away from the observer can be accurately measured by changes in the length of the radio waves it transmits...
...earth. This would be followed by a series of satellites that, by early 1960, would keep a 24-hour watch on every part of the earth's surface. By late 1960-provided the Government adopts the plan soon-Atlas would push a manned hypersonic glider (five times the speed of sound) into orbit, finally lift freight ships into space to provide living quarters for a new generation of space residents. Not content with this plan, General Dynamics' scientists also have their eyes, minds and scientific talents fixed firmly on developing spaceships (called "Probes") to explore outer space. Surveying...
...Each Atlas launching tests different components in the missile. Last week's flight was not for distance, but to make the first test of the small rocket engines on the side of the missile that 1) maintain speed while the missile cuts off its two take-off engines (after about 130 sec. in flight), leaving only the main sustaining engine; and 2) control direction and velocity of the missile...