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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/VB7N6KVSGUMJ2E43ZZFVP76RCQJ4C2TS/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "VB7N6KVSGUMJ2E43ZZFVP76RCQJ4C2TS", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/VTVYYFM3VF4OEIUKDOTKLGLTDE4GL7BV/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "MDAVIDOFF (a) ccbcmd.edu", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Davidoff, Martin", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Explorer I", "date": "2008-02-01T17:54:09Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/VTVYYFM3VF4OEIUKDOTKLGLTDE4GL7BV/?format=api", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "1 February 2008\n\n\tReading the comments on the Explorer I Spacecraft by Roy (W0SL)\nand Dan (N8FGV) has certainly stimulated lots of old memories.\n\n\tIn late 1983 I attended a presentation by James Van Allen at a\nmeeting of the National Academy of Sciences in DC convened to celebrate\n25 years in space. At this point in time the development of the Space\nTransportation System (The Shuttle) was being seriously debated.\n\n\tMost (!!!) scientists of the era thought the program was a\npolitical boondoggle whose costs would seriously impede the progress of\nreal space science. As Van Allen, a spokesperson for this group, put it\n(my paraphrase) -- These guys claim they're going to reduce my launch\ncosts by a factor of 100 by taking a scientific instrument with a one\ncubic foot volume, putting it in a bus and adding all the life support\nsystems necessary for five people. \n\n\tThese past few weeks we've seen spectacular photos of Mercury\ntaken by the Messenger Spacecraft on its first flyby of the planet. How\nmany people realize that the Messenger mission is the follow on to\nNASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft which mapped about 45 percent of the\nMercury's surface during three flybys in 1974 and 1975. Because (?) of\nthe Shuttle Program it took us more than three decades to return. \n\nde K2ubc (Martin Davidoff)\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On\nBehalf Of Roy\nSent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:33 PM\nTo: AMSAT BBS\nSubject: [amsat-bb] Explorer I\n\nIf I'm not mistaken this is the 50th anniversary of the launch of \nExplorer I, the USA's first satellite put in orbit. I listened to the \ntelemetry broadcast on 108 mHz and recorded it. The JPL had asked for \nthe loan of any recordings made so I sent them out for their analysis. \nI received my original tapes back along with a supply of new reels of \ntape for use in making further recordings. JPL sent copies on to the \nAir Force Research Center at Cambridge.\n\nI later received letters from JPL and the Air Force Research Center \ndescribing the data they had recovered from the recordings relative to \nmicrometeorite impacts and other items. It was a really exciting period\n\nfor Amateur Radio.\n\n-- \nRoy -- W0SL\n_______________________________________________\nSent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\nNot an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite\nprogram!\nSubscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n\n-- \nBEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS\n------------------------------------------------------\n\nTeach CanIt if this mail (ID 34618761) is spam:\nSpam:\nhttps://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=34618761&m=87ca5f44f198&c=s\nNot spam:\nhttps://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=34618761&m=87ca5f44f198&c=n\nForget vote:\nhttps://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=34618761&m=87ca5f44f198&c=f\n------------------------------------------------------\nEND-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }