European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stars and stripes satellite tracking still imperfect Art by John Noble we obd Colorado Ned the death watch for Cosmos the crippled soviet any satellite that plunged to Earth Over Northern was an exercise in technological virtuosity but in the end a Render ofl5 seemingly unavoidable in the Art ofor Edlung exactly when and where things that go up into space May comedown officers of the North american air de sense command Norad said in inter views Here that in the final three or four Days of the nuclear powered satellites flight their computers received and Ana lazed More than observations from tracking stations around the world advanced telescopic and other satellite watching they knew where the satellite was at All times and that h was obviously losing Altitude and a potential but i the final u for they could Tun not be sure whether the satellite 9 coast of or to Esou wast of the in the Pacific Hawaii or in Northern tag to Novarr space defense deep Wilde the High Granite Cheyenne Mountain in the col Orado in a steel chamber with two Seta of Jhon steel Mast presumably secure against All natural or Man made this is part of the nerve Center and command Post for worldwide air and space attack warning on the Walla digital docks told the Lime at at major radar at the soviet unions three Art Buchwald Washington 1 am not one of those t who believe in the but i believe there Are enough reports of in 1 potholes in the United Stales that by should investigate Over the county and officials ate getting reports of myst i potholes showing up in the streets of but they Are being kept quiet o As not to alarm the people official fear that if americans found i How Many potholes were made in just s last this nation would have the 1 who Heads up the led pothole which has kept t of pothole sightings around the coun refuses to remain there out Loudermilk everyone in a position of Power who is out there tasked something is out louder Muk look at these satellite you see one of these dark blotches that a 11 Latu led the notice anything strange about them there much larger than any potholes Ive Ever and More ragged around the you bet you Sweet Asphalt they Ive been watching potholes for but 1 Haven seen anything like the ones Ive seen this look at these Here in Pittsburgh and Cleveland and col and Over Here in and Down Here in and Over Here in the state of and Here in Louis and he looked at me and said barely above a no human being could make to that i a Mack truck or a or even a american louder Muk Shook his we tested All of we got the heaviest two and Threeton trailer trucks we could we used garbage none of them could make potholes at Large As those we found in Here is a pothole made near la guard a no vehicle known to Man could have made he showed me a blowup of the Queens what does it look like to Yau he to u Pustin Yar and at chivas Shang Cheng officers and technicians Satal control consoles by running the rangers he could instantly on a plot of any Over computer to display of najor Dav ii Schnekloth pressed the object in a few the screen showed the Orbital track of salyut the manned soviet space which was at the moment approaching in the bade computers held in their memory Banks All the latest data on objects in these Are working pieces of satellites that have spent rocket even a camera one of the Palta it Ranals dropped in Earth data on some to observations Are fed into the computers every Only meatier William Yanchek of the air chief of the space defense which is joint America Canadian opera said that his staff of 65 officers and technicians does not control or talk to any of the space objects we Only Monitor and Analyse their Orbital such Asel Range and Range and forecast their Orbital until late Yanchek was predicting that Cosmos 9h should reenter the atmosphere some time i Early april this was at a time when the satellites orbit was still the Norad officials said that information on exactly when and How they first knew that Cosmos 954 was in trouble remains but in late november or Early Decem Yanchek intelligence people came to us and asked us to run some predictions on when the Cosmos might decay which is the satellite watchers word for plunge out of orbit and into earths Yanchek the Center plotted and Analysed an objects orbit Only once a but u the computer printouts signalled some deviation or if other government sources expressed an the centers analysts would begin making daily computer runs on the object a 29yearold and his team of analysts quickly noticed that Cosmos which had been circling Earth owe every m Hadi dmm by on tenth of a minute 1 to two faiths of a it May not seem but that a 1 Tohnien that was our i West indication that something the satellite had become t and this increased the drag by tracking stations were alerted to r Tor the satellite by late deceit Tohlen put out a Cosmos 1 should decay in 23 plus or minus 1 it actually reentered on the Mont of after the analysts i trept a Vigil through the Day and other soviet satellites were launched i Day before and had to be i added pressure on the lines were kept open to Washington i expected fall the satellites which crossed i Over water than Over i analysts Felt the Odds wan 2 to 1fktjgg would drop Over at hours by the eventual they said that reentered on its not it come Down in the Pacific on the in tonal x degrees North of at 13 they predicted site reentry off Southwest if the Cosmos came Down during orbit at Sta Tohlen predicted an or Atlantic target Southeast of at three he alerted one that the entry would be Over m but an hour he made a Talve an area of Pacific North of then came word from a camera station on in be of detecting satellites reflected i at the Maul trackers need seeing the Cosmos glowing with heal i it began its fiery u appeared t break into two a hawaiian tvs station people in yell own saw the object and thought it i a crashing after the Tohlen said he tired and elated but Yanchek cautioned when ing with unguided satellites 1 Cosmos we Are just not Good Eno to Tell new York for that satellite is coming and will Knock Kong off the Empire state building i said a giant right now there Are millions of these and even Here in Salt Lake How no you explain potholes of this size All Over the country at ills time of year i without much convict its because we had a Lousy thais what they want us to think Bauder milk they Hope Well believe that these potholes letters to the editor j our Here is another letter from a sports is not my As a matter of id be eternally grateful if you would cancel All of them if really How the same people who detest violence on love football of you Are Reading this football at your heroes they Are wearing Lecove shoulder protective helmets and whatever else needs to be took like a Bunch of i have waked with people who went to College on t Ball m Sta rial football we rent Able to work out their fuse within their violent they most Likely commit some sort of considering this 1 wish they v legalize dueling at least the process straying each other would be Morel it funny to listen to people wonderful source View Rise anyone of the of self or swi More and does not have the Ness of football Doris Frankfort write on Tom i Cwm cd my Tor it
