‘WILL ORBIT SUN’
Jodrell Bank Tracking (Rec. 11 p.m.) JODRELL BANK (England), March 3. The director of the radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank, which is tracking the United States space rocket, Pioneer IV, Dr A. C. B. Lovell, said today that he believed the rocket would go into orbit around the sun. He said he believed that the moon rocket was 30,000 miles from the earth at 9 a.m. G.M.T. Professor Lovell said this morning: “The rocket is off its planned course, but what this means I cannot say. It is several degrees lower than it should be according to the planned tracking schedule, but I cannot interpret this.” Later, he said Pioneer IV was still “a few degrees off course” but that it “will be at least equal to the Russian achievement.” The Soviet Union sent a rocket into orbit round the sun in January.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 13
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