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*Aim of the Air Force project was to encircle the globe with a band made up of 350 million tiny copper wires, which could be used as a reflector to relay radio messages. Nothing has since been seen of the wires. *Named for Loveman Noa, a 23-year-old midshipman, who was killed in 1901 near Leyte in the Philippines while fighting insurgents.