On 10/07/10 17:09, J. Forster wrote:
Telstar was a BIG DEAL! There was even a pop song about it.
Reading the Bell labs books on the Telstar project is very nice. Nice fold-outs on control-panels etc.
They did spent a lot of time to engineer the whole thing. Their antenna setups that would track the high-dynamic movement due to the low orbit.
Amplifiers was rubin-maser cooled with liquid helium... and stuff like that. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
