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| The Kettering Group | Tyneside, UK 2021 Jan 31 Sunday, Day 31
Maintained by: Robert Christy Zarya Home Kettering Group Home Kettering Group Chronology 1966 ATV Today Interviews 1966 Flight Int'l Plesetsk Letter 1966 "Pentagon Signals A Hit" 1966 Film Snippets 1967 First Sheldon Report 1968 Panorama 1977 Archive Film 1978 New Scientist 1985 "The Kettering Connection" 1991 Philatelic Commemoration 1993 The Wonderstuff 1995 The Express Story 2010 BIS 'Spaceflight' 50 years 2015 - Obituary, Derek Slater 2016 - 50th yr Celebration 2018 - Science Museum The Kettering Tracking Station Radio Frequencies Members and Reminiscences Kettering Group on the Web: "Cytringanian Farewell" Extract Book published on closure of the School Sven's Space Place Kettering results, history, exploits and accounts 'Time' mag on Plesetsk 1966 Contemporary Article Project Kettering website Geoff Perry item Human Spaceflight Telemetry Soyuz & Salyut - article by Geoff Perry Demolition of the School BBC News Feature | The Group’s First Major TV Appearance During March of 1966 the School was visited by a reporting team from the Birmingham-based local TV programme "ATV Today". Members of the Group were filmed together with some of the tracking equipment. The footage, can be watched here. It will open in a new tab in your browser. Lionel Hampden, the reporter, speaks to Geoff Perry, Derek Slater, Richard Jahn, Mike Sinnett and David Hall. Note the signal generator and oscillope displaying a Lissajous Figure. They were part of of the physics lab day to day equipment and were not generally used in satellite tracking but they do add an air of activity to the views. Next to the oscilloscope can be seen a globe encircled by a ring of copper wire to represent an orbit. It was used as a analog computer to envision satellite ground tracks. The image above is taken from the BFI film. Fifty years later, almost to the day, the Globe was once again in the hands of Kettering Group members. In the picture on the left, Geoff Perry's daughter, Isabel Carmichael (its original owner) and Bob Christy, explain to onlookers how it was used. The photograph was taken at the opening of the Kettering Group exhibit at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK in March, 2016. page date: 2019 Jan 26 |

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