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How They Photograph Satellites

Date released

14 Mar 1963

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

63/22

NoS ID

110589

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

8 1/2 ton camera gets pictures of satellites 400 miles above earth.

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Everyday Engineering: Understanding the Marvels of Daily Life (2015)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 744 minutes (24 lectures)), £54.99

This resource is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the way things work around us. Professor Stephen Ressler investigates, among other topics, power plants, dams, aqueducts, railroads, communication...

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Ariane failure and loss of satellites (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Guntis Berzins of Inmarsat on the failure of the first commercial space flight of the European rocket Ariane together with the loss of the Marecs B and Siro satellites. Includes sound of...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.14: Programme 14 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 14 Programme 14 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 23rd January 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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For Tracking Satellites

Date released

23 Jan 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1651

NoS ID

023958

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: For Tracking Satellites. DESCRIPTION: The Minitrack Station at Winkfield in Berkshire, where the first calibration of the interferometer was carried out, last month, is now ready. The...

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Snapping the Satellites

Date released

14 Mar 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1762A

NoS ID

025023

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Snapping the Satellites. DESCRIPTION: As more and more satellites are shot into the skies, so the business of tracking them becomes increasingly difficult. This is one of two 8 1/2 ton...

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Duncan Campbell on the Zircon programme on spy satellites (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Duncan Campbell, investigative journalist and television producer on the Zircon BBC television programme on spy satellites he produced and the New Statesman article and them not posing a risk...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

5 Oct 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/81

NoS ID

113803

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

The weather is big business for a British firm which specialises in building automatic receiving stations for pictures from weather satellites.

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Ariane space launcher (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with space expert, Ian Ridpath, about the success of the European Space Agency, particularly the shuttle, Ariane, which will be used to launch satellites. Male interviewer not identified.

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McWhirter on Zircon injunction (1987)

Genre

Interview

Norris McWhirter, founder of the Freedom Association, on the Freedom Association’s attempts to stop the Zircon BBC television documentary on spy satellites being shown at public meetings and the reasons...

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