Volume 14, No. 1
November 2001
New SHOT International Scholar
In Search of the First Personal Computer
What Mercurians are Reading and Writing
That's As High As It Will Ever Get: Getting Into Orbit
Cover: Relay 1 being assembled at the Astro-Electronics Division of RCA in Princeton, NJ. This experimental łactive,˛ rather than passive, satellite received radio transmissions from Earth and retransmitted them back to another ground location. It weighed 172 pounds, was 33˛ high, and 29˛ in diameter, at its broadest. To read more about early geosynchronous orbiting U. S. communication satellites, see David. J. Whalen's essay. Image accessed at <www.nasa.gov>.