Reminiscence: at the dawn of the space age /spl lsqb/satellite radio transmissions/spl rsqb/

The author gives a personal account of some of the satellite radio communication experiments being carried out in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In particular the author mentions the Sputnik series of satellites and the Nora-Alice payloads on the Discoverer series of satellites. The study of the ionosphere is particularly discussed.<
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