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Naked-eye observation is not of much use for plotting the satellite's orbit, but the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass, got a few accurate reports from Moonwatch teams that were organized to observe the still-grounded U.S. satellite. These data, digested in 21 seconds by...
The sighting reports already received at the Observatory have not given locations definite enough to produce an exact answer from the IBM computer machine at M.I.T.
Whipple said that the satellite and its rocket would be in the same orbit, but that one Alaska sighting was hampered by cloudy skies and was not sufficiently accurate for the computation program of M.I.T.'s giant IBM 704 computer.
Magic on the Stand. Nobody talks a client's language better than Dr. Irving P. Krick, 50, onetime Caltech meteorologist who started the first private weather firm in Denver in 1938. A leading rainmaker as well as a hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260...
The airplane is usually drifting sideways under the influence of side winds, but the 67 determines the drift and allows for it. It notes the heading from the airplane's compass. Then a computer figures automatically the latitude and longitude, the ground traveled and the deviation, if any, from...