Data Tech Chronicles

  The LES-1 Communications Satellite (including booster)  Part One - An Experimental Satellite   On 02.11.65, an experimental satellite, designed and built in a laboratory created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working closely with the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense, was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida . Only two yeddars later, this very same satellite would be abandoned and unceremoniously take its' place in the skies above Earth as just another piece of orbiting space junk.    Forty six years later, an amateur radio operator in Great Britain, carefully rotating the dials of his ham radio receiver, heard what he thought was a faint but distinct radio transmission, rhythmically emanating from somewhere above the earth. Detailed research into the signal's origin made it clear the transmission was coming from a satellite which had been launched into space on 02.11.65; it was the very same satellite which had been g...