U.S. spacemen last week scored two more advances in their stubborn, low-glamour campaign to put space to practical use. For the first time since the race to space began, they achieved two successful satellite firings in a single day. Rising from Cape Canaveral, Fla., a Thor-Delta rocket set a Tiros weather satellite on an almost perfectly circular orbit 463 to 506 miles above the earth and at a 48° angle to the equator. Later that same busy day, an Air Force Atlas launched a missile-detecting satellite, Midas III, from Point Arguello, Calif.
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