Reminiscence: At the dawn of the space age

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Apr 1994

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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (ISSN 1045-9243), vol. 36, no. 2, p. 32-35

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Histories, Radio Astronomy, Radio Telescopes, General Overviews, International Geophysical Year

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In October, 1957, the scientific world was finishing preparations for the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The US Naval Research Laboratory was planning to launch into orbit, sometime during the 18-month IGY, one or more 'grapefruit-sized' earth satellites, which were expected to be the first artificial earth satellites in history. At the 1957 General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), in Boulder, Colorado, the delegation of the USSR announced that they, too, planned to launch a series of satellites during the IGY, with radio-beacon frequencies chosen especially for ionospheric research. At Illinois, the author describes his experiences in building a large radio telescope for fundamental observations in astronomy.

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