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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1956)
.-(' 1 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 6, 1956 THE CAPITAL' JOURNAL! Secon 1 Page 1, Earth Satellite see Lipman's new toy collection for a wonderland of Vehicle Rocket 1st Test Nears Director Says Project Going Along Nicely, Despite Hitches By JOSEPH L. MYLER United PrrH Klnff rnrrni WASHINGTON (UP)- A prog ress report on the Earth satellite project: One of these days at the Air Force missile test center on Flor ida s tape Canaveral, a powerful rocket will take off into the thin air miles above the open sea. " It will be the first flight test of the first stage of the three- stage rocket "vehicle" which, some time in the next two years, will hurl the first artificial moon around the Earth at 18,000 miles -an hour. The satellite itsplf win be a 20-inch magnesium sphere crammea witn instruments. It has been a little more than 16 months since the White House announced the decision to at tempt a small conquest at the edge of space. The goal: To put at least one satellite more if possible into the sky dur ing the International Geophysical Year (IGY). 1GY is a many-nation scientific project to amass new information about the Earth. It will last 18 months from next July 1 to Dec. 31, 1958. ' The satellite undertaking calls for rocketry perfection never be fore achieved. How is it going? Some Hitches Dr. John P. Hagen of the Naval Research Laboratory, director of the project, concedes that some hitches developed as the testing stage approached. But they were the kind that can be worked out. "We are still confident," he laid, "that we will get the first one up in the time allotted us." All of the armed services and many private concerns are work ing on the project. In all, six satel lite vehicles will be fired more if the first attempts are successful and Congress puts up the money for launching additional moons. The Florida launching site has been all but completed and staffed. One of 10 stations to track the satellite by radio has already been established at Blossom Point, Md. The satellite assignment, Hagen ays, was "really a rough one," and not everything to date has been "peaches and cream." But the project is "going along quite well." No specific deadline, other than "some time in IGY", has ever been officially set for the first launching attempt. . The idea is to get the satellite on a flight of reasonably long dur ation above the atmosphere. Many radiations from the sun and stars, and much else that goes on in space, can be observed only by sending instruments above the at mosphere. Orbit Important How long the first satellite will continue to circle the Earth de pends on its orbit. The scientists would like to have it move in per fect circles around the planet at a height of about 300 miles. Space at that altitude is a vacuum by Earth standards. Still, it contains enough air to slow the satellite and eventually bring it plunging to fiery destruction by friction in the dense lower atmosphere. But a perlect-circlc orbit would require too much precision of con trol to hope for, and the satel lite's path in all likelihood will be an ellipse. Scientists will be hap py if it approaches no closer than 200 miles, in which case the farth est point on its flight would be about 1,500 miles above the Earth. Hagen calculates that at 300 miles the satellite would "live" for almost a year. At 200 miles it would have a lifetime of about 15 days. If it orbited at only 100 miles, friction would bring it down in less than one hour. LEGALS NOTICE TO DEALERS Sealed bids will be Accepted at the office of the Department of Finance. City Hall. Salem, Oregon, until 10:00 o'clock A.M . December 111, 1956, lor furnishing petroleum products to the city from January 1, 1357 to Decem ber 31, 195-,. Ail deliveries shall be made F.O.B. Salem, Oregon at city installation or project slts within or adjacent to the city limits in such quantities and at such times as may be required. Bids to be exclusive of Federal Tax and tabulated bv number and In the order listed below. The right is reserved by the City to reject any or nil bids, and to award all or any part of the City's requirement to any bidder or bid ders, as the best Interests nf the City may require. All envelopes containing proposals shall be plalny marked "Petroleum Bid" and addressed to the under ignea. City Hall, Salem, Oregon. 1. G.SOLINE: 13.VO00 gallons more or less, Pre mium & Regular grades. H5.000 by TntcK and Trailer. 40.000 In bu:y. lank wagon or barrels. I KEROSENE: 13.000 gallons more or less, bulk delivery. I. DIESEL MOTOR FUEL: S.ooo ga.lons more cr less. 40 C-Taine, shall not contain more than one-half of one percent sulphur. Bulk Deliveries. 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