December 1961
From The Space Library
General Electric announced operation of the largest solar thermionic power system at GE's solar test facility near Phoenix, Ariz. Early tests generated an output of 12.18 watts and unit has potential efficiency of 15 to 20 percent of the total solar energy input.
West German Post Office indicated that it would construct near Munich a ground station capable of handling up to 600 phone calls simultaneously for operations in late 1963 or early 1964 with Telstar and Relay type satellites.
Japan's launch facilities for its rocket research program would be moved from Akita on the northwest coast of Honshu to Kagoshima on the southern tip of Kiushu, according to an announcement by Hideo Itokawa at the Thul International Symposium on Rockets and Astronautics in Tokyo.
USIA reported that U.S. space achievements were a leading item in their overseas information program and covered all media. USIA concluded : "The policy of 'openness' observed in both U.S. manned space flights during the year dramatized the basic difference between the American open society and the Soviet closed society, and drew widespread approval from commentators throughout the free world. The availability of full information about the events through all news media, together with the presence of foreign correspondents--who gave firsthand, on-the-spot coverage—enabled audiences to achieve a high degree of self-identification with one of the greatest adventures of our times."
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