Green E.J Arnold Folder Containing Kettering Satellite Tracking Group Press Cuttings and Publications

Green E.J Arnold Folder Containing Kettering Satellite Tracking Group Press Cuttings and Publications

Green folder containing press cuttings, publications, magazines, and photographs relating to the Kettering Grammar School Group - which went on to become the Kettering Satellite Tracking Group. Collected by one of the Group founders, Derek Slater.

Derek Slater had worked with Geoff Perry tracking Soviet space activity with basic equipment at the Kettering Grammar School, using students to assist them. The Group achieved many notable discoveries, including revealing a secret Soviet launch site before it had been made public by either the Americans or the Soviets. This particular discovery catapulted the Kettering Group into the media spotlight, with many newspaper reports, documentaries, and magazines featuring their activities. The artwork for the Wunderstuff's 1993 album, Construction for the Modern Idiot, heavily featured pictures taken of the Kettering Group.

Contained within the folder are the following items collected by Slater:

Press cuttings
- Copy of Geoff Perry’s ‘Listening to Satellites’ discourse given at the Royal Institution’s behest
- Copy of Time magazine from December 1966, with a feature on the Kettering Group on page 30
- Copy of Wireless World magazine with a feature on the Kettering Group on pages 132-33
- Copy of the historic first photo of the Earth seen from 232,000 miles away, taken by the Moon Probe Lunar Orbiter on 23 August 1966. Taken by a Kodak photo system aboard Lunar Orbiter, the picture was developed and printed inside the spacecraft and then scanned for relaying back to Earth based receiving equipment. The picture shows the Moon in the foreground with the Earth in shadow in the background
- Copy of ‘Soviet Space Stations - Achievements, Trends and Outlook’ written by Geoff Perry in November 1982
- Copy of New Scientist magazine no.1102 from May 1978. Includes a feature on Perry and the Kettering Group on pages 364-66
- Copy of Flight International magazine from July 1965 with a feature on the Kettering Group on pages 144-45. The following year Flight International published the letter from Perry that revealed the existence of the secret Soviet launch site at Plesetsk
- Various photos of the Kettering Group