IEEE Computer PACE SIGHT Group WIE STEM AP ComSoc History etc. Technical Working Meeting

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IEEE Computer PACE SIGHT Group WIE STEM AP ComSoc History etc.

Planning and creating technical aspects of the upcoming Event associated with the IEEE Milestone Project Echo,

STEM activity, documentation, and implementation. Preparing documentation, reviewing materials.

Title of the proposed milestone:

Project Echo 1959 – 1965, Telstar, and the 1964 discovery

of the Cosmic Background Radiation of the Formation

of the Universe, the Big Bang 1959 - 1965

Plaque citation summarizing the achievement and its significance:

In Project Echo 1959 - 1961 a 2390-mc receiving system located at Holmdel New Jersey, a tracking horn-reflector antenna, a maser preamplifier (or standby parametric preamplifier), and a special FM demodulator were combined to form a low-noise receiving system which was used to achieve a high-quality voice circuit from California via the Echo I passive satellite, in 1962 - 1963 to communicate with Telstar, and in 1964 the discovery of the cosmic background radiation of the formation of the Universe, the Big Bang.

Project Echo