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First victims of the new radiation were three U.S. satellites, TRAAC, Ariel and Transit IV-B, that were knocked out of commission, presumably because of damage to the solar cells that supply their power. Fortunately, the communication satellite Telstar has been unharmed; its solar cells are covered by protective windows of sapphire. In the future, says NASA, all its satellites will have sapphire windows; other necessary changes have not yet been determined. Though the problem is serious, NASA's experts think the new radiation will not affect manned U.S. satellite flights...
...about to emigrate to the U.S., Johnson hustled some future Democratic votes by observing that President Kennedy had recently named Anthony Celebrezze, who was born about 90 miles from Naples, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Later, at a private audience in the Vatican, Johnson presented a model Telstar satellite to Pope John XXIII. Johnson and the Pope, both voluble men, talked for 40 minutes, double the scheduled length of the audience. Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, in the Soviet Union to inspect hydroelectric facilities, hit it off famously with the Russian officials. Declared one: "We have known...
...lowering sky may come from the fact that the unretouched picture shown here was transmitted last week with the speed of light from Paris to the TIME & LIFE Building in New York City, bouncing off the communications satellite Telstar as it hurried 3,000 miles overhead...
Lenin Aloft. U.S. television networks asked to plug in on the space screenings via Telstar, but the Russians refused. At a once-removed distance, however, Soviet public relations men were shelling out a variety of corn that would have made a second-rate Hollywood puff merchant blush. Around the world, Soviet embassy officials peddled prepared picture layouts that showed the two cosmonauts with their families, and at play, wearing brief swimming trunks at a Russian beach resort. There were pictures of the two lolling on a grassy slope, riding a pedal boat, and even one of Nikolayev sniffing poppies. Handouts...
Bell Telephone Labs built the incredibly . successful Telstar communications satellite, but Goddard men launched it, and NASA's rich experience with space electronics made its triumph possible. Other communications satellites are even now in the works, including Relay, a joint NASA-RCA project that will be launched late this year, and Syncom, which will be placed in orbit 22,300 miles above the earth. Any one of these systems, or a combination, may eventually handle the bulk of the world's long-distance communications. These complicated communications satellites may soon become the biggest kind of commercial business, justifying...