M.I.T. Computation Center
- M.I.T. Computation Center
=History of the M.I.T. Computation Center=
The M.I.T. Computation Center, organized in 1956, housed an IBM 704 up until 1960.
The M.I.T. Computation Center and Operation Moonwatch
After the successful launch of Sputnik on October 4th 1957, the race was on to calculate and predict where the first man-made satellites would appear in the sky. Dr. Fred Lawrence Whipple, then director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge Massachusetts, had gathered amateur astronomers to track artificial satellites in an organization called Operation Moonwatch. The aim was to get the position of the satellite in order to obtain its orbital elements. The first "satisfactory orbit" calculated by the IBM 704 as official tracker for the SAO occurred at 7AM on the morning of October 11th, 1957.
References
* Christian Science Monitor, "Soviet Space-Satellite Rocket Sighted By Observation Teams in Cambridge" , Oct 11, 1957, page 1
* Tech Talk (MIT Newsletter), October 22nd, 1957 "A Lucky Seven"
* tech engineering news, "moon track", March 1958, Vol XXXIX No. 6, p68
* Beyer, Jean-David and Sidney Shinedling, "The i.b.m 704 computer at m.i.t" tech engineering news, May 1958, Vol XXXIX No. 8, p26
* NASA Article Citation "Technical aspects of satellite tracking on IBM computers at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts" Feb 26, 1960
External links
* [http://sputnik.any.to/ Selected Artifacts and References]
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