How many members of SRC Space Division remembered to tip a cup to Ariel III during Sunday tea on May 5th?, because at precisely five o'clock that day the satellite completed 5,518 orbits and exactly twelve months in space.
This first all-British satellite is a great success and has sent back to earth something like four hundred million words of data from the six experiments it carries. Most of the data has been processed by the Atlas Computer Laboratory and RSRS.
Some of the final results were displayed by SRC around the flight engineering model of the satellite at a symposium held in the beautiful new home of the Royal Society in Carlton House Terrace.
In the photograph, Mr. J. F. Smith, who was the SRC Project Co-ordinator, explains one of the experiments to a visitor.
