THE MICHIGAN DAILY VER SEE IT: Exact Satellite Location in Space Could Be Hard Job TO0N L. BLAKESLEE A Press Science Reporter )RK (A)-Russia's baby never be seen by human Soviet. " art 'of a seeming gamble k to win the proud prize sting space, opening, a human destiny. ct her m9on, Russia is %inly on a §omewhat odd radio signals from it. nals could fade or be making it hard to pin- exact location of the Sputnik -- Russian for Mlite. Learn Part - 's path has to.be learned 4 it human observers could ey'll have to know where to look to glimpse it- use binoculars. ger Sputnik whirls, the chance of tracking her. batteries might go dead y reveal her path. orites-bullet-speed bits and stone-might knock as they rip throughI the ams Watching It is also relying on 66 h teams of paid observ- ing the skies along the xpected path of Sputnik. roblem of wondering he go?" after you launch prompted United States to set up a triple method ng, and then learning tails from her moons. a picket fence of mini- o stations all along the idian. Our moons will on 108 megacycles, to through the earth's elec- t in space without dis- 'hat chain 1s almost in rder now. Lower Frequency an't find Sputnik. Rus- mce been understood to ed to use the same fre- she chose lower frequen- cies-20 to 40 megacycles-say- ing this would permit amateurs to help find and learn from Sputnik. The minitrack chain can't receive those frequencies. American radio experts say these frequencies could fade or be bent in coming through the iono- sphere, hence not give a precise location of the moon. The United States organized 100 moonwatch teams here, 50 abroad. They can scan the sky along the expected orbit, perhaps find the moon if its battery went dead. Third is a network-just.getting started--of special camera tele- scopes. These can zero in on the moon when its path is known, for inval- Russia's Earth Satellite Reveals Research Lead uable knowledge. Slight variations. in a moon's path will give infor- mation about the shape and size of the earth, its pull of gravity. Russia is reported interested in buying such cameras herself-ant indication she does not have this method. Invited Observations One of her scientists on Thurs- day invited observations of Soviet moons, especially by the revealing telescopic cameras. Sputnik, and following moons can disclose, vital knowledge about the thinning density of air high above the earth. To get these facts, its path has to be accurately tracked to determine how much .the air is slowing it down. The official Soviet announce- ment made no mention of instru- ments inside Sputnik. But. Dr. A. A. Blagonravov, Soviet scientist now in Washington, said it was also measuring temperatures in space. Might Send Code This data could be radioed back in coded pulses. It could be tremendously excit- ing news, but Russia has not an- nounced- any code key. In the plans and .spirit of the International Geophysical Year, all data learned in any fields is to be fully shared by all 64 partici- pating nations. Word is still awaited from the Soviets as to how close Sputnik comes to earth, how far out in space she swings. For the Russians mention an elliptical' orbit, but give only one height-560 miles. They don't spell out whether that's the closest or farthest swing around the earth. Sallade Hits Shop Center r State Rep. George W. 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Prof. Leo Goldberg, chairman of the department of astronomy, said. Russia "obviously was going all out" on the project. "We (the United States) haven't been running scared," he said. "All the technical data was' at hand and it was simply a question of which nation would make the' big- gest effort to do it first." Prof. Goldberg also expressed surprise at the size of the reported weight of the satellite. "We've been talking about a 20 or 30 pound object," he said. Nelson Spencer, research engi- neer in the Engineering, Research Institute, said the satellite launch- ing indicated Russia probably has the knowledge to support its claims of possessing an intercontinental ballistic missile. He added that the rocket which propelled the satellite Football Films Featured Tonight "Quarterback" films will be shown at 7 30 p.m. today in the Union according to Stewart Frank, '59, chairnan of the House com- mittee of the Union. into space "probably was along the lines of an ICBM." Jones said that until the Rus- sians revealed further information, there was no way of telling whe- ther a sphere was launched by a three-stage rocket or a single'stage ICBM which "certainly would be capable of doing the job." Both Spencer and Jones are members of the Rocket andSatel- lite Research Panel of the United States, a gr6up of American scien- tists which has been engaged in rocket research since 1946 and more recently, in satellite research. The present schedule in the United States call for launching a test satellite this fall and a fully. equipped instrument-jammed sat- ellite next sprihng Spencer said the United States might get a satellite up very soon simply by letting the third stage of a multiple-rocket become the satellite. But the problem of launching a satellite, he said, is much greater than just shooting a rocket high into the sky.. 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