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post Sep 9 2008, 07:44 AM
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Ah! It reminds me the mainframe existing at our university 'til the 80s; a Borroughs B6700!
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post Sep 9 2008, 08:19 PM
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Ah yes, those were the days. It reminds me of the Swedish Airforce's IBM 7074, which was the first mainframe I worked with. It was pretty old then, but I've heard that when the Airforce bought it they got a real blast about their profligacy from the Department of Finance which was planning to buy a similar machine to cover the needs of the whole Swedish Government, civil and military....
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post Sep 18 2008, 05:44 PM
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Because this month is special (closure of manned spaceflight section) I wanted to post a mixed image:
NASA's Magellan probe to Venus is launched from the cargo bay of Space Shuttle "Atlantis" during STS-30, not the well-known photo but an artist' impression dating from Sep 1988:

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post Oct 1 2008, 06:03 PM
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TelStar 1962, an amazing 77 kg satellite. Since July 1962, Telstar 1 demonstrated transatlantic data, facsimile, voice and television transmissions. It paved the way for commercial satellite utilization and according to the US Space Objects Registry, Telstar 1 was still in orbit as of May 2008...

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post Oct 1 2008, 08:24 PM
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Telstar 1 can still be tracked with a telescope.
Its orbit is something like 900km x 6000km and it varies in brightness from 6th mag to 13th
...on the heavens above website log in and set your location (important), then
  • Select a satellite from the database
  • put in: Telstar 1
  • and then peruse all the 'visible' passes over your house!


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post Oct 1 2008, 09:24 PM
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Does anyone else get the feeling that when commercial orbital flight becomes routine, that some enterprising person is going to start a company to retrieve historical orbital objects like Telstar 1, and not just satellites, but pieces of this and that and then return them to Earth to be auctioned off as collectibles?

EDIT: unmanned of course, else I wouldn't discuss it here wink.gif


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post Oct 1 2008, 09:40 PM
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It'd be scientifically interesting. Sort of a VVVVVVVLDEF

And, it would be cool.
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post Oct 1 2008, 10:28 PM
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I watched some of the first Telstar transatlantic transmissions. Remember the pop tune named after it?

Regarding recovery of old satellites... the old owners might not consider they have relinquished ownership - better check first. This has been the topic of heated debate on the Google Lunar X-Prize forum, in connection with lunar artifacts. (before that forum got spammed by viagra ads)

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post Oct 1 2008, 10:29 PM
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Some talk about it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23639980/

I was googling "Who owns old satellites?"

Oberg seems to think that it's the original owners, rather than a more maritime free-for-all.
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post Oct 2 2008, 05:26 PM
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Overall, the spin-stabilized satellite measured 88 centimeters as the dimensions were dictated by the limited space in the fairing of NASA’s delta launch vehicle. Telstar 1 communicated through four major ground stations; (1) Andover – Maine USA was the principal ground station for data and tracking operations, (2) Holmdel – New Jersey USA, the “first telephone terminal to outer space” received the data, (3) Goonhilly – England GB, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation was the international coordinator center and (4) Pleumeur-Boudou – France, a station almost identical to the AT&T facility in Maine. NASA facilities and stations in Italy and Brazil conducted relay communications tests.
Telstar 1 certainly was a beauty:
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post Oct 5 2008, 03:30 AM
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My brother's stepfather was the late Jack Olson. He was a visionary designer that developed concepts of space vehicles while working for Boeing. [He is also named as the co-inventor of the Boeing Jetfoil (he designed everything above the waterline).]

Jack was a notorious practical joker - in the mid-60's one of his earliest depictions of a lander on the lunar surface had a subtly disguised bleached-out steer skull in the foreground - this was part of a presentation package that the unknowning head of Boeing Aerospace, Joe Stoner, presented to a Congressional subcommittee.

Among his many concepts, this image is of a Mars habitation colony that was presented to NASA. (Note the "Welcome" mat near the ladder). This was his last space illustration:
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At the lower right in the graphic is a very subtle addition (and the link to unmanned spaceflight). If you look below his name, you can see symbols carved into a martian rock. These are the date of the drawing (2-6-1992) in Runic characters. This plays homage to Jack's fascination with Viking runestones in America and also links to the first successful American lander on the Martian surface, named Viking.

-Mike

[EDIT: He was also an aeronautical genius. I was fortunate to go on a multiple bus trip he organized to view the February 26, 1979 total solar eclipse in Washington state. While the rest of the Pacific Northwest was pretty clouded over (quelle surprise), he successfully found a patch of clear weather for our trip based on a meteorological effect called a "wave window" which would make a hole in the cloud in certain areas downwind from a topographic obstacle.]


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post Oct 31 2008, 01:49 PM
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Happy Halloween !!!

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post Oct 31 2008, 04:07 PM
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laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif GENIUS!!! Thanks, Phil!


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post Oct 31 2008, 04:32 PM
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In fact that's an official NASA-JPL image and yes Saturn's moon Titan looks the most scary ohmy.gif
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post Nov 1 2008, 10:37 PM
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For November I have chosen a space observatory photo:
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-3), was the third of a series of 4 space observatories. OAO-3, a collaborative effort between NASA and the UK’s Science & Engineering Research council, was launched on 21st August 1972 and carried an X-ray detector built by the University College of London in addition to an 80 cm UV telescope built by Princeton University.
Once successfully in orbit, OAO-3 was renamed Copernicus to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. The spacecraft operated until February 1981, and returned high resolution spectra of hundreds of stars along with extensive X-ray observations.
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