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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1961)
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 19S1 -E Signal Corps Is Planning Space Radio Satellites SPECIAL OPEN HOUSE TONITE, 6:30-9:00 P.M. FREE COFFEE . . . FREECAKE . . . FREE DOOR PRIZES! MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE i m . jfw Washlnnlnn -(IIPD- In its 100 year-history, the U.S. Army Signal Corps has used every thing from carrier pigeons to semaphore tiags to iransmn military messages. Now it's working on a $200 million project to bring mili tary communications into the Space Age, with messages flashed to almost any spot on the globe from satellite ve hides which seem to hang sta tionary in space. "Project Advent," as it's called, is intended to realize a dream that has intrigued man iho riavs nf Jules Verne. The communications satellites will seem to be permanently suspended in one spot, 22,300 miles above the Equator, be cause their rotation period in orbit will be precisely the same as the earth's approxi matoly 24 hours. The Signal Corps hopes to have three of the communica linns satellites in orbit by the end of 1064. Preliminary test shots will begin at uapc Canaveral. Fla.. in mid-1062 Instead of circling the earth like the moon and present-day artificial satellites, the "Ad vent" satellites will remain overhead for 24 - hour duty. From their great height, their line-of-sight communications range will reach out more than 5,000 miles in all direc tions from a point directly be low them. Thus, a Signal Corps station 5,650 miles south of the Equa tor could send a short-wave radio message to a point 5,650 miles north of the equator through one of these satellites. Worldwide System Three of them, spaced about equally around the earth's 25000 - mile waist, would provide worldwide short-wave and television com munications, except for the extreme Arctic and Antarctic regions. Present plans call for satel lites weighing about 1,000 pounds each and capable of receiving and transmitting simultaneously at a rate of 120,000 words per minute. Although test shots will be fired from Cape Canaveral, the point from which the "Ad vent" satellites will be hurled into. snare is still uncertain. The problem in launching is that cither the satellite must be fired from a point on tfnuolnr nf plsr Ihfi launching rocket must travel a "dog leg course so that the satellite slips into an equa torial orbit from a horizontal position. The orbit must follow the Equator if the satellite is to appear stationary. Missile experts say the "dog leg" method probably will be chosen, using small guidance lockets to bend the launching course, but the possibility of launching from a platform at sea still is under study. The Army's hope is to dem onstrate the feasibility of such a system for the benefit of private communication firms. 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