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Tiros stands for Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite, but in Tiros I the infra-red instruments were omitted...
...England. His family was not well off, and Snow made his way by his brains. He studied at University College in Leicester, working in chemistry and graduating with First Class Honors. His work was brilliant and soon took him on to Cambridge where he continued his research in infra-red spectroscopy and was elected in 1930 a Fellow of Christ's College. At this time, while publishing scientific papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, he began his career as a novelist. Snow says that he had known since eighteen that he wanted eventually to be a writer...
...tanks, 60 of them Russian and Czech vehicles in the 30- and 35-ton class, plus four new 43-ton T-54 Soviet tanks that have night-fighting, infra-red sights and mount a 100-mm. gun, can outperform anything except the newest...
...restaurant. Franey's job is to jazz the menu a little. With him in charge, Johnson hopes to get around the shortage of good cooks by making food in batches, freezing it in polyethylene bags holding a serving each. Each local restaurant simply quick-heats the serving on infra-red or radar ranges, hopefully keeping some of the original flavor. Johnson thinks that U.S. food tastes are becoming more sophisticated, but he knows better than to get too far out in front of his customers. "If you say Halibut Dante, the average American will never...
...Gross was also counting on other good news. Last week for example, Lockheed's Agena-Discoverer satellite produced a space "first" when its nose cone was recovered after being placed in orbit (see SCIENCE). Lockheed is the prime contractor for the orbiting Midas satellite, which is equipped with infra-red sensors to detect the heat of ballistic missiles and send a warning back to earth. It is also working on the Samos global surveillance system. Along with the Martin Co., Lockheed was chosen fortnight ago to study the feasibility of a nuclear rocket, a development that Gross believes will...