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...seat of the Roman Catholic Church itself been under such combined attack from visitors. At official meetings of bishops and theologians and at a completely unofficial assembly of priests, the central if subtle topic of discussion in Rome this week will be the authority of Pope Paul VI -and the possibility of limiting...
...knows exactly how long OSO-VI and its Harvard experiment will continue to operate. OSO satellites are designed to last six months, but one earlier OSO has been working for nearly two years...
After two months in orbit 300 miles above the earth, an automatic telescope designed and assembled at the Harvard College Observatory is working perfectly. The ultra-violet light experiment aboard Orbiting Solar Observatory VI (OSO-VI) "is meeting 100 per cent of our expectations," said William H. Parkinson, lecturer on Astronomy and co-director of the project. "We've got a winner...
Besides observing the sun, the OSO-VI telescope has measured the absorption of ultraviolet light by the earth's upper atmosphere an important factor in the earth's weather...
...prevent such a failure from happening again, the Observatory scientists checked the OSO-VI transformer for gas bubbles while keeping it sealed in a vacuum chamber for a month. They also added an extra circuit that automatically turns the telescope off when too much electric power is produced. The satellite can be turned back on again once the danger is past...