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124: 272: 162:, von Braun expressed his belief that they should have a "real, honest-to-goodness scientist" involved in their little unofficial satellite project (Project Orbiter). "I'm sure you know a scientist somewhere who would fill the bill, possibly in the Nobel Prize class, willing to work with us and to put some instruments on our satellite". Stuhlinger, himself a cosmic ray researcher at the 201:(ABMA), it was realistic to expect that within a year or two a small scientific satellite could be propelled into a durable orbit around the Earth. ... I expressed a keen interest in performing a worldwide survey of the cosmic-ray intensity above the atmosphere". 220:, from von Braun's team noted this presentation and stayed in contact with Van Allen's Iowa Group. Through "preparedness and good fortune", van Allen later wrote, the experiment was selected as the principal payload ( 37:. It was ultimately rejected by the Ad Hoc Committee on Special Capabilities, which selected Project Vanguard instead. Although the project was canceled on 3 August 1955, the basic design was used for the 110:
popularized this concept even further in 1945, in a paper entitled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?", published in
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design. Van Allen later recounted, "Stuhlinger's 1954 message was simple and eloquent. By virtue of ballistic missile developments at
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On 26 January 1956 at the Symposium on "The Scientific Uses of Earth Satellites" at the
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by its founders) began to gain in popularity, with membership growing from outside of
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rockets, was ready with his reply: "Yes, of course, I will talk to Dr. Van Allen".
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Loyd S. Swenson Jr.; James M. Grimwood; Charles C. Alexander (1989).
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Bate, Roger R.; Mueller, Donald D.; White, Jerry E. (1 June 1971).
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proposed the use of U.S. satellites for cosmic-ray investigations.
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Stuhlinger followed this by a visit with Van Allen at his home in
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gaining worldwide appeal was due to the writings of mathematician
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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into orbit at a meeting of Spaceflight committee of the
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This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, pp. 13-18
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magazine. Clarke described the concept as useful for
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Index

spacecraft
Project Vanguard
United States Army
United States Navy
Juno I
Explorer 1
Society for Space Travel
Germany
Hermann Oberth
mechanics
Earth
orbit
Herman Potočnik
geosynchronous satellite
geostationary orbit
Arthur C. Clarke
Wireless World
communications satellites

Wernher von Braun
satellite
American Rocket Society
Redstone rocket
solid-fuel rockets
Redstone
Ernst Stuhlinger
University of Tübingen
Hans Geiger
James Van Allen
White Sands Missile Range

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