LONG-DISTANCE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SYNCOM II showing the firing of its small rocket motor. The rocket provided the final thrust to insert Syncom into its circular orbit 22,300 miles above the earth. This sequence of pictures was taken, at the rate of one every three seconds, by a Baker-Nunn satellite-tracking camera in South Africa. The actual distance from the satellite to the camera was close to 23,000 miles, and, at that distance, Syncom, without its motor firing (see frame 1), shows as a barely visible speck on the film.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 24
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88LONG-DISTANCE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SYNCOM II showing the firing of its small rocket motor. The rocket provided the final thrust to insert Syncom into its circular orbit 22,300 miles above the earth. This sequence of pictures was taken, at the rate of one every three seconds, by a Baker-Nunn satellite-tracking camera in South Africa. The actual distance from the satellite to the camera was close to 23,000 miles, and, at that distance, Syncom, without its motor firing (see frame 1), shows as a barely visible speck on the film. Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 24
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