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1961 Press Photo Transit Satellite Launched from Thor-Able-Star Rocket, Florida
Cape Canaveral, Florida, November 15 - Transit satellite launched - The U.S. Air Force's Thor-Able-Star rocket shoots skyward from Cape Canaveral today, carrying the Transit IV-B satellite which, if successful, will mark another major step by the Navy toward the development of a worldwide, all-weather navigational system for air, land or sea. Transit IV-B carried pickaback the Navy's new asymmetrical satellite TRAAC (Transit Research and Attitude Control) to test the feasibility of employing the earth's gravitational field to stabilize a satellite with its face permanently turned toward earth.
Photo is dated 1961.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
Photo is dated 1961.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
Cape Canaveral, Florida, November 15 - Transit satellite launched - The U.S. Air Force's Thor-Able-Star rocket shoots skyward from Cape Canaveral today, carrying the Transit IV-B satellite which, if successful, will mark another major step by the Navy toward the development of a worldwide, all-weather navigational system for air, land or sea. Transit IV-B carried pickaback the Navy's new asymmetrical satellite TRAAC (Transit Research and Attitude Control) to test the feasibility of employing the earth's gravitational field to stabilize a satellite with its face permanently turned toward earth.
Photo is dated 1961.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
Photo is dated 1961.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
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1961 Press Photo Transit Satellite Launched from Thor-Able-Star Rocket, Florida—
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Cape Canaveral, Florida, November 15 - Transit satellite launched - The U.S. Air Force's Thor-Able-Star rocket shoots skyward from Cape Canaveral today, carrying the Transit IV-B satellite which, if successful, will mark another major step by the Navy toward the development of a worldwide, all-weather navigational system for air, land or sea. Transit IV-B carried pickaback the Navy's new asymmetrical satellite TRAAC (Transit Research and Attitude Control) to test the feasibility of employing the earth's gravitational field to stabilize a satellite with its face permanently turned toward earth.
Photo is dated 1961.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
Photo is dated 1961.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
