SATELLITES DELAYED
Earth-Measuring Programme
An American programme to launch geodetic (earthmeasuring) satellites had been postponed indefinitely, the Surveyor-General (Mr R P. Gough) said. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the United States Military Attache in Wellington. Among ohter things the satellites would have enabled the position of New Zealand on the globe to have been fixed with much greater accuracy than now. Stations were to have been set up by the Lands and Survey Department from which, with the aid of Americansupplied equipment, the satellites would have been tracked. The first satellite had been due to go up towards the end of this year. Mr C. S. L Keay. of the University of Canterbury physics department, commented that he was disappointed at the postponement. "The American workers are under tremendous pressure to get as far ahead ns possible with the man-on-the-Moon project, and anything not directly connected with this is liable to be pushed into second place," he said. "This could have been the reason for the postponement, or it could be that some of the equipment for the satellites is not yet ready.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29625, 22 September 1961, Page 17
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