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RECOVERY OF CAPSULE

Hope Virtually Abandoned WASHINGTON, August 16. The United States Defence Department has abandoned virtually all hope of finding the capsule ejected from the United States’ newest satellite. A spokesman said ships and aeroplanes still were searching a 10,000-square-mile area of the Pacific 700 miles south-west of Hawaii, but that operations would be halted after “some hours.” The 3001 b capsule was ejected on Friday from the Discoverer V satellite, sent into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Big C-119 aeroplanes cruised the target area in an attempt to catch the device as it parachuted down, but its radio signal was never picked up.

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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 13

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RECOVERY OF CAPSULE Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 13

RECOVERY OF CAPSULE Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 13

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