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...radio communication can be maintained across 25 million miles, the nearest approach of Venus. Transmission over this distance requires a lot of power. Chemical batteries are too feeble. Nuclear-powered batteries are promising but have not been developed sufficiently. The best bet is solar cells, which capture energy from sunlight...
...paddlelike surfaces carried on branching supports and arranged in such a way that one of them will always face fairly accurately toward the sun. Both surfaces of the paddles will be covered with a mosaic of cells made of thin sheets of a photoelectric material (probably silicon) that turns sunlight into electricity. The paddles will be folded when the satellite is in the nose of its launching rocket and will snap into position as soon as it is spaceborne. The array of solar batteries is expected to develop as much as 400 watts, about enough to run a small toaster...
Total Darkness. Soon the satellite will go over the horizon from the sun and plunge into total darkness. There is no twilight in space-only sunlight and darkness. All about him will be a black emptiness and silence...
...crimson gates of Her Majesty's Prison in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, a balding little Englishman stood one day last week, blinking in the sudden sunlight. Guy Clutton-Brock, 53, had just been released after 27 days in jail. His wife Molly was 250 miles away in a Bulawayo mental hospital; she had suffered a breakdown following her husband's arrest for associating with African nationalists. Clutton-Brock is what he calls "a practical Christian," and his courageous version of practical Christianity, many African churchmen were saying last week, may be just what is needed to get the church...
Designed in the pioneering 1920s by France's famed Le Corbusier, who considered it his finest "machine for living,'' it is raised on pilotis (stilts), has gently inclined ramps leading from the ground to the sun deck. Interior space is so arranged that sunlight floods the open areas behind its cubist exterior, and once prompted the owners to call it Les Heures Claires (Clear Hours). The Germans looted it during World War II, and the cost of rehabilitation was estimated at $80,000. The aging, widowed Madame Pierre Savoye decided not to spend the money, never moved...