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Signal Corps Is
Planning Space
Radio Satellites
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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
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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
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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.
At present only two ground
terminals are planned - at
Camp Roberts, Calif., and
Fort Dix, N.J. - to send and
receive messages from the
satellites.
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At Hanford Works
Richland, Wash. - (UPU - An
eleventh-hour personal appeal
by President Kennedy, has
averted a strike of 3.200
workers at the $8 billion linn
ford Atomic works.
The workers, members of
the Hanford Metal Trades
council were scheduled to be
out on strike today over con
tract differences with Gen
eral Electric Co., operator of
the sprawling 600-squarc mile
facility.
Kennedy Monday sent a
telegram to union and man
agement urging that the
strike deadline be extended
until midnight of March 31.
lioth General Electric and the
council agreed Monday night.
The President's telegram
said he had directed Secretary
of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg
"to make available his good
offices" and asked for "a
speedy end to this long dis
pute" in the public interest.
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