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Cover of LIFE magazine dated 11-18-1957 w. log

 featuring picture of scientist Wernher von Braun

w. model of moon rocket he designed.

Location: US

Date taken: November 18, 1957

Photograph: Ralph Crane

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/55e6c8d622d8cb1d.html

rocket        USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/
1213451383/spacex-is-attempting-to-launch-its-giant-starship-rocket-again-heres-what-to-kno

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/06/
583627592/watch-live-spacex-attempts-launch-of-powerful-falcon-heavy-rocket

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/05/
582464054/spacex-set-to-launch-worlds-most-powerful-rocket

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/
science/space/15nasa.html

pioneering rocket scientist > Yvonne Brill

in the early 1970s

(she) invented a propulsion system

to help keep

communications satellites

from slipping out of their orbits

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/
science/space/yvonne-brill-rocket-scientist-dies-at-88.html

rocket scientist > Robert Collins Truax    1917-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/us/
30truax.html

German engineer Werner von Braun    1912-1977

(...) a key developer of the Nazis' V2 missile,

later recruited during the cold war

to help the US win the space race.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/15/secondworldwar-international-criminal-justice

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/24/
nazis-run-gerald-steinacher-review 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/15/
secondworldwar-international-criminal-justice 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/03/
germany.kateconnolly 

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/
772742561/the-dark-side-of-the-moon

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/us/18haeussermann.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/15/
secondworldwar-international-criminal-justice 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4443934.stm

expendable booster

velocity

launch

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/06/
583627592/watch-live-spacex-attempts-launch-of-powerful-falcon-heavy-rocket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Z8NjByuNcDA&index=9&list=UUqnbDFdCpuN8CMEg0VuEBqA

launch

vulture-free launch

countdown to launch

count down

during launch

at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

postpone / scrub

launchpad / launch pad        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/18/
1087417075/nasas-artemis-1-moon-rocket-reaches-the-launch-pad

blast off / blast-off / blastoff        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/jul/04/
spaceexploration.internationalnews2

blast off from + N

lift off / liftoff        USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Z8NjByuNcDA&index=9&list=UUqnbDFdCpuN8CMEg0VuEBqA

take off / take-off

aeronautics company

reach

land / touch down        USA

landing

crash

crashland        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/oct/19/
spaceexploration.science 

touch down on N

speed

parachute

the craft's parachutes

the planet's surface

journey

250-million-mile journey to Mars

module

solar arrays

payload

satellite        USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/08/
890461092/from-desert-battlefields-to-coral-reefs-
private-satellites-revolutionize-the-vie

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/
science/mev-1-northrop-grumman-space-junk.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/
772024008/itty-bitty-satellites-take-on-big-time-science-missions

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/18/
499576593/new-weather-satellite-provides-forecasts-for-the-final-frontier

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/
science/space/satellite-will-fall-to-earth-but-no-ones-sure-where.html

geostationary weather satellites        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/
opinion/climate-change-earth.html

satellites > ESA >

TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument    TROPOMI

(it) can measure the methane

in any 12-square-mile block of the atmosphere,

day by day.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/03/
1077392791/a-satellite-finds-massive-methane-leaks-from-gas-pipelines

The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2,

or ICESat-2,

was launched in 2018

as part of NASA’s

Earth Observing System.

It replaced a satellite

that had provided data

from 2003 to 2009.

ICESat-2

uses a laser altimeter,

which fires pulses of photons

split into six beams

toward the Earth’s surface

300 miles below.

Of the trillions of photons in each pulse,

only a handful of reflected ones

are detected back at the satellite.

Extremely precise measurement

of these photons’ travel times

provides surface elevation data

that is accurate to within a few inches.

“It’s not like any instrument

that we’ve had in space before,”

said another of the authors,

Alex S. Gardner,

a glaciologist at NASA’s

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

in Pasadena, Calif.

The resolution is so high

that it can detect rifts

and other small features of the ice surface,

he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/
climate/antarctica-ice-climate-change.html

communication satellites        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/11/
778219787/as-spacex-launches-dozens-of-satellites-at-a-time-some-fear-an-orbital-traffic-j

CubeSats        USA

Tiny satellites

are taking on a big-time role

in space exploration.

CubeSats are small,

only about twice the size

of a Rubik's Cube.

As the name suggests,

they're cube-shaped,

4 inches on each side,

and weigh in at about 3 pounds.

But with the miniaturization

of electronics,

it's become possible

to pack a sophisticated mission

into a tiny package.

CubeSats have been around

since 1999.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/
772024008/itty-bitty-satellites-take-on-big-time-science-missions

space market >  small satellites        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/
technology/start-ups-aim-to-conquer-space-market.html

dead satellite        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/
dead-satellite-space-earth-magnetic-field

dead satellite        USA

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/
1232565722/dead-satellite-space-junk-falling-back-to-earth

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/
science/space/23satellite.html

space junk        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/
science/mev-1-northrop-grumman-space-junk.html

wayward satellites        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/us/
dale-gardner-astronaut-who-helped-corral-wayward-satellites-dies-at-65.html

dock    USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/
science/mev-1-northrop-grumman-space-junk.html

fall to Earth        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/
science/space/satellite-will-fall-to-earth-but-no-ones-sure-where.html

The Soviet Union launches Sputnik,

the first man-made satellite        USA        Oct. 4, 1957

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/
science/space/14stever.html

Global Positioning System    GPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Global_Positioning_System

satellite cluster

dish

April 27, 1962

On This Day

From The Times archive

The first British satellite was launched

by an American rocket to measure

the intensity of the Sun's

radiation and cosmic rays

BRITAIN’S first satellite, the UK 1 was successfully launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, today by an American Delta rocket. Two hours after it was launched scientists at Cape Canaveral confirmed that telemetry was being received from the spacecraft which was apparently in orbit.

It will, however, be some time before it can be definitely confirmed that the UK 1 has achieved the planned elliptical orbit which will take it as far north as Gretna Green and as far south as New Zealand at altitudes ranging from 200 to 600 miles.

The scientific purpose of UK 1 is to study the properties and behaviour of the ionosphere, the radio reflecting layer, which begins about 35 miles above the earth.

The satellite, which, it is hoped, will send back information to earth for a year, was to be tracked by stations around the world, including the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research’s installations at Winkfield, Berkshire; Sembawang, Singapore; and Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.

In the ionosphere, where the atmosphere is tenuous, incoming high-energy radiations from the sun collide with molecules of air and atoms, leaving positively charged atoms or ions. The ionosphere filters out dangerous sun radiation and at the same time acts as a mirror to radio waves making international communication possible.

On This Day - April 27, 1962,
Times,
27.4.1962,
http://www.newsint-archive.co.uk/
pages/main.asp - broken link

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