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The Netherlands hears the artificial satellite
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Week number 57-42
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
- Type:
- video
- Length:
- 03:00
- Publication date:
- 7 October 1957
- User:
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Source:
- WEEKNUMMER574-HRE0001B0C3
In the PTT radio station in Nederhorst den Berg the sound signal of the artificial satellite of the USSR is picked up, the first satellite in space. Engineer Wegener and radio astronomer drs. De Feiter talk about the signal and the future of the artificial satellite during a press conference. Also an animation of an artificial satellite that will be launched by the USA.
