Jodrell Bank's role in early space tracking activities
Sven Grahn has written an extensive article on Jodrell Bank's role in early space tracking activities; this is reproduced here with his permission. The article is divided into two parts: part 1 and part 2. The table of contents is below.
Part 1:- A strange new world
- The creation of the telescope and the observatory
- How Jodrell Bank was drawn into space tracking
- Space tracking exploits by Jodrell Bank
- References and Notes