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From: Mike Terry <miketerr...@btinternet.com>
To: DXLD <d...@yahoogroups.com>; Yahoogroups <bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 15:30
Subject: 50 years in space today!
In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a
spacefaring civilization —— and it was us.Sputnik 1, the first satellite to
orbit the Earth, launched on Oct. 4 of that year from a site in Kazakhstan,
then a part of the USSR. That site is now the Baikonur Cosmodrome; at the time
it was site 1/5 at the Tyuratam range.Article here:
Sputnik's Beeping Legacy: Satellite's Simplicity Made It Iconic 60 Years Ago
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