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...director of Project Vanguard, Hagen said that, starting this fall, four grapefruit-size satellites will be launched to test radio-tracking systems for the six major satellites that will begin to go up next spring. This fall's minor moons will be only 6.4 in. in diameter, weigh only 3.25 lbs. They will be launched at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base by the same type three-stage rocket that next spring will catapult into space the full-size satellites, which will be 20 in. in diameter, weigh 21.5 lbs. Hagen thinks the test satellites will stay aloft...
...first satellite that the U.S. will try to place in an orbit around the earth has apparently been downgraded by about three-quarters. Last week Washington officials of Project Vanguard admitted, with some cross-contradiction, that the first try will be made with a sphere 6.4 in. in diameter weighing about 4.5 lbs. The original plans called for a 20-in. sphere weighing 21.5 lbs. and packed with instruments and radio transmitters. The reduced satellite will carry practically nothing beyond minimum radio equipment to allow it to be tracked through space...
...whiff of gas, it might reach a size that would be brilliantly visible at dusk or dawn. This bright Communist star, rising in the west every 90 minutes and streaking rapidly eastward, would win enormous prestige for its Soviet launchers. To head off such a possibility, Project Vanguard may be reducing its own first satellite to the bare minimum...
...Here to Exercise." Last week's executives were the vanguard of five groups from every phase of industry-most of them lower-echelon men on the way up-who will spend two weeks each this summer at the institute, a cluster of modernistic buildings perched high in the Rockies just over the continental divide from Denver. Cost: $600 for two weeks, which is usually paid by the executive's firm. (Wives may come along for $250 extra.) As soon as the executive signs up, he gets a copy of all reading material for two weeks, with a strong...
Liquid v. Solid. Watching the figures soar, dozens of big companies are hurrying into the field to share the bonanza. General Electric, after a start in small rockets, is now producing the big (100,000-lb. thrust) first-stage rocket for the Vanguard earth satellite. Curtiss-Wright is producing small antitank rockets for the Army, is working on a throttle-equipped" rocket engine for planes and missiles. Bell Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Phillips Petroleum, General Motors and many others are developing new engines and materials to fuel them...