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After circling lifelessly in a low-earth orbit ever since its launch during a Discovery mission last April, the $85 million satellite had finally stirred, apparently revived by the astronauts' daring rescue operation. LEASAT last week was responding to commands from ground controllers, raising hopes that it could be lofted next month into geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the earth to take its place in a Navy communications network...
...Discovery, which ended in triumph last week after a halting, tension-filled start. Proclaimed NASA Official Jesse Moore, after the five-man shuttle crew made a predawn landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California: "It was a beautiful mission from the outset." Well, not exactly. Discovery's launch had been postponed twice at the last minute, first by bad weather, then by a faulty backup computer. The third try seemed doomed to failure too when the storm system that later spawned Hurricane Elena darkened the sky and began pelting Cape Canaveral with rain shortly before launch time. But NASA...
...Lotto Lunacy recalls the mania that swept Illinois last year when its lottery prize reached $40 million. The craze is spreading. Twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia either already run lotteries or have plans on the drawing board. On Sept. 3, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will launch the nation's first multistate lottery. In 1985 government-sponsored gambling is expected to generate revenues of $10 billion and net the states $4.1 billion. As lotteries reach across the U.S., criticism will doubtless grow. But with billions at stake and new tax revenue hard to come by, it would...
...would be proud to have his name on this car." Royce, an engineer, met Entrepreneur Charles Rolls in 1904 at Manchester's Midland Hotel, and the first Silver Ghost was on the road three years later. Rolls died in an air crash in 1910, but Royce went on to launch the posh Phantom series in the 1920s and to acquire Bentley Motor Ltd. in 1931, two years before his death...
...model. The Soviet ASAT is a 150-ft., 2-ton rocket designed to climb into orbit and chase down satellites around the earth. After closing with its target, the Soviet missile explodes, destroying the satellite in a hail of shrapnel. But while an F-15 can reach launching position within an hour of takeoff, the Soviets must wait for a target satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes of launch. The Soviet rocket takes as long as three hours. Furthermore...