Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be sent to earth intermittently for a total of two to four hours a day. "The operation of the equipment will be controlled from a coordinating and computing center on the earth." Since Soviet receiving stations do not girdle the turning earth, Lunik III was presumably programed to transmit its signals only when they would reach Soviet territory...
...loosen up about its objectives. Leningrad Physicist Lev Ponayeton said that data from the unseen side of the moon will help determine its shape and distribution of mass, which will be of tremendous help to manned space flights. Semi-official science reporters went farther, predicted that Lunik III would transmit actual photographs of the other side of the moon. Official scientists did not mention photographs, but it was significant that they launched their rocket at a time when most of the far side of the moon was in sunlight. Presumably, any picture of the moon's far side would...
Middle-sized U.S. birds, still not so big as the Russians' biggest, will use the reasonably reliable Atlas as their first stage. Highest U.S. hopes are pinned at present on an Atlas-boosted job intended to whip around the moon and transmit a picture of its mysterious backside-a feat considerably more difficult than simply hitting it. Its timing may not be so good as that of Lunik II, which hit the moon just before Khrushchev's arrival in the U.S. (just a lucky break, said Khrushchev). But the U.S. moon shot's target date is early...
Equally important is the data that Explorer VI will send back about its own solar-powered performance. If it continues to be successful, solar energy will be used to drive future U.S. satellite instruments and to operate orbiting TV scanners that will transmit unclouded images of the solar system. Last week, with a wink at Christopher Columbus and George Eastman, Explorer VI televised back a crude image of smudges and blurs-the first picture of the earth ever shot from so far out in space...
From the eye sockets of trachoma victims, investigators had no trouble getting secretions in which they found what seemed to be a large virus. The trick was to grow it uncontaminated in the laboratory, then use it to transmit the disease. It refused to grow, or grew for a few days and vanished. A major obstacle: the disease is hard to diagnose except in man. Still, some human subjects got the disease in experiments that dishearteningly failed to convict the virus as the cause...