A series of five programmes in which John Stobbs, a journalist with a non-scientific education, asks some eminent scientists and engineers to discuss and explain the tools, techniques, and rewards of space research.
How are satellites tracked... how are their signals received and interpreted... what can we and do we learn from their orbits and the instruments they carry?
Speakers:
D.G. King Hele, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
J.G. Davies, Jodrell Bank
R.L.F. Boyd, leader of the space research group at University College, London