U.S. SATELLITE LAUNCHING
First Test Next Month BALTIMORE (Maryland), Nov. 28. The Glenn L. Martin Company today announced a description of the 6.4 m baby satellite weighing 41b. that will be sent into space in a test rocket some time next month. The satellite would be perched on top of a simulated third-stage solid rocket motor in the top of I 72ft Vanguard earth satellite hunching rocket, the company said. The power to transmit radio signals back to the earth would be supplied by solar-powered batteries, which harnessed the sun's rays through small portholes on the satellite’s shell. Flexible crossbars between the satellite and the rocket would give support to the third-stage engine before it was ejected from the burned-out second stage. The crossbars would also be ejected soon after the third stage left the protective cylindrical sleeve, about 300 miles above the earth. The satellite would be protected by an asbestos type of material on the nose cone.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28448, 30 November 1957, Page 15
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