It's October of 1957, and Sputnik “each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.” has just launched, and we're at the applied physics lab associated
It is Monday morning and all the news just talk about this satellite that’s now orbiting the planet. In the lab there are all of the physics geeks who are thinking that’s thing is incredible.
Two of the researchers at the cafeteria table chatting with their colleagues, they start talking and one of them just ask "Hey, has anybody tried to listen to this thing? There's this, you know, man-made satellite up there in outer space that's obviously broadcasting some kind of signal. We could probably hear it if we tune in."And so …show more content…
And so they go back to the office and start playing around with the amplifier for a couple of hours. Then they start picking up the signal.
people start kind of coming into the office and saying, "Wow, that's pretty cool. Can I hear? Wow, that's great." And they start noticing small frequency variations so “ They could probably calculate the speed that the satellite is traveling if they do a little basic math here using the Doppler effect” and they talked to a couple of their colleagues who had other kinds of specialties. Then they say “you know, we think we could actually take a look at the slope of the Doppler effect to figure out the points at which the satellite is closest to our antennae and the points at which it's farthest away.”
A couple weeks later their boss, Frank McClure, pulls them into the room and says, "Hey, you guys, I have to ask you something about that project you were working on. You've figured out an unknown location of a satellite orbiting the planet from a known location on the ground. Could you go the other way? Could you figure out an unknown location on the ground, if you knew the location of the satellite?"and they said, "Actually, it'll be
It is Monday morning and all the news just talk about this satellite that’s now orbiting the planet. In the lab there are all of the physics geeks who are thinking that’s thing is incredible.
Two of the researchers at the cafeteria table chatting with their colleagues, they start talking and one of them just ask "Hey, has anybody tried to listen to this thing? There's this, you know, man-made satellite up there in outer space that's obviously broadcasting some kind of signal. We could probably hear it if we tune in."And so …show more content…
And so they go back to the office and start playing around with the amplifier for a couple of hours. Then they start picking up the signal.
people start kind of coming into the office and saying, "Wow, that's pretty cool. Can I hear? Wow, that's great." And they start noticing small frequency variations so “ They could probably calculate the speed that the satellite is traveling if they do a little basic math here using the Doppler effect” and they talked to a couple of their colleagues who had other kinds of specialties. Then they say “you know, we think we could actually take a look at the slope of the Doppler effect to figure out the points at which the satellite is closest to our antennae and the points at which it's farthest away.”
A couple weeks later their boss, Frank McClure, pulls them into the room and says, "Hey, you guys, I have to ask you something about that project you were working on. You've figured out an unknown location of a satellite orbiting the planet from a known location on the ground. Could you go the other way? Could you figure out an unknown location on the ground, if you knew the location of the satellite?"and they said, "Actually, it'll be