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03-10-2011, 08:44 PM
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Anybody got a tube for the Telstar satellite?
It likely has a weak one or two. (I am soo funny... too me
 )I watched a bit of a special that mentioned it had tubes? Is that true? They had transistors then, so, I think not or mabe just one tube for some sensitive application? Was that device nuclear powered? How else could it hold power so long? Maybe nuclear is the wrong term. I saw an episode of a show I love: "I've Got A Secret" inwhich a man brought a basketball size round thing that he operated to power a lightbulb and he claimed it would do so for like 8 years? I think it had plutonium? It had something I expect is dangerous and could mess up reproductive matters at the very least. I thought I can't believe people are allowed close to it. I hope he never had kids after that. What happened to Telstar? I think they said it operated until recently. I guess it just drifted into space? I hope aliens do not find it and steal more of our secrets! 
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03-16-2011, 01:25 AM
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The "Starfish" high altitude blast placed high energy radioactive particles in the area of space where the satellite operated. When Telstar was launched a day later, these particles and radiation made the satellite malfunction. The electronics began to decay from the radiation to the point where the satellite was unusable.
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03-16-2011, 04:33 AM
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03-16-2011, 11:21 AM
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It was solar powered, as you may have read from the Wikipedia article.
The traveling wave tube remains the best available wideband microwave amplifier, although the bands used by Telstar (4-6 GHz) could easily be covered with modern SS devices. Some recent Moon survey missions used fairly high speed data links with TWT microwave transmitters: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/RT/2007/...RCE-force.html
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03-18-2011, 01:19 AM
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TELSTAR PARTS- Transistors- Bell Solar Batteries etc. etc.
My friend John Pierce was the father of TELSTAR other friends helped develop and built it... yes I have parts of TELSTAR project but alas not the TWT!
Alas ll my friends involved with this project have passed on... See what we have below at the link. I love playing with the Bell Solar Batteries..... To learn some more... see the museums section at..... http://www.smecc.org/telstar_photo_album.htm Keep an eye out fro early TV studio equipment for the museum... we are buying this month! Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
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03-18-2011, 01:27 AM
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John Pierce / ECHO The Gaint Mylar Baloon! here is Johns article at the museum.
John Pierce / ECHO The Gaint Mylar Baloon! here is Johns article at the museum.
http://www.smecc.org/john_pierce___echoredo.htm Keep an eye out for early TV studio equipment for the museum... we are buying this month! Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC Last edited by couryhouse; 03-18-2011 at 01:40 AM. Reason: changing it
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