Page 6 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 8, 1963
British Report Says Telstar Picture Clear
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Test television transmission to Europe will be made again today via Telstar II, the new U.S. communications satellite, which was reported performing satisfactorily.
A spokesman for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T) said a test similar to the first test made last night would be made on Telstar II's tenth global orbit between 7:30 p.m. EDT and 8:15 p.m. He said there were possibilities that color pictures would be transmitted and that European sending stations might transmit signals to America.
THE SPOKESMAN said that although Telstar II's orbit is "a little higher than we expected," the communications satellite is in "good orbit and fine condition."
"We are not in the best part of the cycle at the moment, but we are more confident of our signals than we were yesterday," the spokesman said.
The signals received yesterday at a French tracking station were described as weak, but an English tracking station picked up a "good" picture. The tape played last night included pictures of AT&T and Bell Telephone laboratory executives and an animated cartoon explaining differences between Telstar I and II.
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ONCE IT IS IN ORBIT, "a satellite doesn't get off course," the spokesman said. "It just continues to go around and around." He traced weak signals received last night on Pleureur Bodou, France, to an "inauspicious slant range" and "attitude" of the satellite.
The "slant range" of Telstar II, or its distance in space from tracking stations, was especially great last night he said. This, he added, will improve as the satellite's orbit changes in relation to tracking stations on earth.
The space vehicle launched yesterday at Cape Canaveral, had a trajectory "as close to normal as any we have had to date," according to Robert H. Gray, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Early this year we put a 164-hp V-8 in a new kind of Falcon called the Sprint, and entered the stiffest winter road test we could find . . . the 2,500-mile Monte Carlo Rallye. We didn't know what would happen . . . but happen it did.
First, no one dreamed all the Rallye cars would have to experience the worst winter in decades. Snow, below zero temperatures, and the most demanding terrain in
Europe took their toll. Two thirds of the 296 cars that started, failed to reach Monaco.
everyone) in store. Against all competition, regardless of class, the lead Sprint went on to take first in the final six performance legs.
We honestly didn't know the Falcon Sprint would do this well. But it showed us a Falcon with our new 164-hp V-8 is a car that can perform with the best of them.So a lot has happened to Falcon, and yet...
A lot of experts told us that the Falcon V-8's, untried as they were, could not hope to finish the Rallye with the best of weather. But not only did two Falcon Sprints finish, they placed first and second in their class. But there were more surprises (for
A six-cylinder Falcon has just finished the Mobil Economy Run and finished first in its class. It had to take a lot of punishment, too . . . 2,500 miles from Los Angeles to Detroit over mountains, deserts, and long stretches of superhighways. But the nickel-
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