Earth globe and satellite Orrery, for Cold War Soviet satellite tracking

Earth globe and satellite Orrery from the Kettering Archive

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Earth globe and satellite Orrery from the Kettering Archive
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Earth globe and satellite Orrery from the Kettering Archive. The Kettering Group tracked Soviet satellites during the Cold War.

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Category:: Space Technology

Object Number:: 2017-149

type:: earth globe and satellite orrey

credit:: Isabel Carmichael

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Earth globe and satellite Orrery, for Cold War Soviet satellite tracking

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