Telstar II Relays Color TV To Europe
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Colored television pictures of ballet performers electronically danced 9,000 miles into space last night and were successfully relayed to Europe by way of Telstar II.
The French tracking station, which 24 hours earlier had reported the first picture transmissions by the newest United States communications satellite "weat and shaky," said last night's reception was "excellent."
Black and white video tape transmissions also were described as "extremely good" by the French station located at Pleumier Bodou. The British tracking station at Goonhilly Downs, which did not tune in the color transmission, reported the black and white pictures were "very good."
TELSTAR II WAS fired into orbit Tuesday morning by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which built Telstar I and II
Tuesday night's transmissions had been reported weak and shaky because the satellite's orbit, which reached 6,500 miles at Apogee, was not presently the best for television relay.
Alton E. Dickieson, executive director of the transmission division of Bell Telephone laboratories pronounced the orbit "practically perfect."
"IT IS ABOUT 100 miles higher than we had planned it to be, but at this altitude, this is unimportant," he said. "As far as performance, everything is working inside the satellite as it did on the ground."
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Dickieson said that Telstar II is sending back radiation measurements to see how successful the
satellite's deliberately high orbit will be in eliminating radiation bombardment.
Telstar I was damaged by radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt, a hazard the new satellite was modified to circumvent.
KU-Y Names Two For 1964 Rock Chalk
David White, Prairie Village junior, and Tom Woods, Arkansas City sophomore, have been named producer and business manager of the 1964 Rock Chalk Revue.
Rock Chalk Revue is sponsored by the KU-Y.
Other members of the 1964 Rock Chalk Revue staff will be appointed next fall.
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A spokesman said the queen will walk on a path painted with red liquid linoleum delicately lined with blue.
JRP Elects New Officers
Residents of Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall have elected the following people to serve as officers for the 1963-64 school year: president, Robert Jones, Cunningham junior; vice-president, Carl Lindquist, Prairie Village sophomore; secretary, Larry Geiger, Mission freshman; treasurer, Dean Strahm, Kingman junior.
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