Fw: Re: Sputnik

[Ken Dupuis Wn2Sqc]

Hi Justin. Try  http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/ it
sounds neat, Ken

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 07:56:37 -0600 Justin L Hall <justin.hall at JUNO.COM>
writes:
> Hey, anyone out there got a recording of the first satellite?
> Sputnik
> used to send a beep as it went over, and one of the locals here got
> a
> recording of it, but I don't know where he is.  That would be an
> interesting piece of history.  And I can't copy code fast enough to
> get
> the Morse that's sent in the movies and on TV.
>
> Justin
> PS- You really can't move satellites around too much, as the fuel is
> very
> limited.  Not to mention there's a conglomerate of dead satellites
> over
> the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans only at 22,000 miles up.  They've
> run out
> of stabilizing fuel to keep them where they needed to be.  So if you
> want
> to make a few billion dollars, get a rocket to refuel them, since
> most
> are fully operational, but have been replaced.
>
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