Weapons could be handled in much the same way as the satellite to cover and threaten vast spaces. Professor H. Webster, the Australian convener for the International Geophysical Year, said in Brisbane: "The launching came as a big surprise to all of us.
He said the satellite probably would cross Australia 'very roughly ' in the line Wyndham-Alice Springs-Canberra, then out to sea. Elford, joint acting coordinator of the Australian Moon Watch Committee, said in Adelaide the launching of the satellite had caught the moon watch unprepared.
Jacka, Chief Physicist of the Antarctic Division of the Department of External Affairs and National Auroral Reporter for the International Geophysical Year, said in Melbourne the satellite could be seen with the naked eye if the sky was perfectly clear. It would appear as a pinpoint of reflected light.
He said scientists would be able to determine from the signals the density of the earth at certain points, the density of the upper atmosphere, the density of fine meteoric dust, the intensity of the earth's magnetic field, and the cosmic ray intensity.
Bowie, Federal secretary of the Wireless Institute of Australia, who has been receiving reports from Australian "hams," said two definite pointers were:. Unwin, officer-in-charge of the Auroral Radar Station near the Port of Bluff, New Zealand, reported mysterious echoes not connected with the satellite.
He said these echoes from an unknown source had been received for some time, says a Reuter-A. Radio experts and amateurs all over Australia and New Zealand have picked up signals from the satellite. Radiophysics experimental officers of the CSIRO working at Sydney University and a team of radio amateurs in Adelaide have intercepted both the 20 megacycle and 40 megacycle beams transmitted by the satellite. In Sydney, Mr.
You are the main reason I wished so often to be born a couple of decades earlier than I actually was. In the late s, I was coming of age in Moscow in the Soviet Union. As I looked up at the skies through the telescope of the Moscow planetarium, I remember arriving at two vague ideas about space exploration: that you had started without me, and that you were already a fossil, a legend of a bygone era.
Images of you were almost as common as portraits of Vladimir Lenin and slogans about the victories of socialism. You were everywhere: on postage stamps, greeting cards, matchboxes, and monuments. Your name adorned hotels and cinemas, restaurants and discos, radios and razors , candies and cakes. Each day, they passed your likeness on propaganda posters as they pushed themselves into overcrowded streetcars and buses in the morning to get to work.
Our parents taught us how to tune in to them over the deafening noise of KGB suppression transmitters. I looked everywhere I could to learn more about you and the Soviet space program, but exploring your past quickly got difficult—if not dangerous. One day, my father brought me a roll of film with photocopies of western articles about the Soviet and U. I was careless enough to take the film to a nearby photo shop for paper copies; when I returned to pick them up, the staff looked at me as if they had caught a CIA agent!
Agency: OKB-1 S. Your birthplace was the biggest taboo. But during one of my early childhood trips by commuter train, I caught a tantalizing glimpse. Two train stops away from our destination, my father pointed at a monumental brick building towering over barbed wire fences near the station of Podlipki.
Not surprisingly, for a kid, it sounded both scary and terribly exciting. Nothing fires up your interest more than a forbidden mystery. Looking back, this moment planted a seed of fascination within me. I needed to see inside. This iconic Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC is suffused with detail—bright blue young stars, the dust lanes spiraling around the bright nucleus, distant galaxies shining through.
Like many other families across the Soviet Union gathering for meals, they actually blamed you and your rockets for the scarcity of food on the table. Fast-forward to the s. Podlipki was renamed after Sergei Korolev, the legendary father of the Soviet space program who blessed your development and design. Still infected with the space geek virus, I was now a journalist—and I had finally received very special permission to visit your secret birthplace.
Sputnik was some 10 times the size of the first planned U. The U. The first U. By then, the Soviets had already achieved another ideological victory when they launched a dog into orbit aboard Sputnik 2. The Soviet space program went on to achieve a series of other space firsts in the late s and early s: first man in space, first woman, first three men, first space walk, first spacecraft to impact the moon, first to orbit the moon, first to impact Venus, and first craft to soft-land on the moon.
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