And an Astounding Science Fiction novella --the trouble with telstar--
Don
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From: "Magnus Danielson" <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org>
To: <time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver
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
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