{"id":12494,"date":"2016-04-16T17:25:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12494"},"modified":"2016-04-16T17:25:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:25:39","slug":"the-kettering-satellite-tracking-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12494","title":{"rendered":"The Kettering Satellite Tracking Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this interesting history of the Kettering Satellite Tracking Group, a club of students organized\u00a0by teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoffrey_Perry\" target=\"_d\">Geoffrey Perry<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0Kettering Grammar School in Northamptonshire, England during the Cold War:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-northamptonshire-36027407\">Kettering Cosmos: How school children exposed Soviet secret &#8211; BBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group monitored Soviet radio communications\u00a0dealing with the space program and made a number of revelations about Soviet space activities. For example, in 1966 they were the first to reveal publicly the\u00a0location of the\u00a0<a title=\"Plesetsk Cosmodrome\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome\">Plesetsk launch site<\/a>\u00a0in north Russia.<\/p>\n<p>See also<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zarya.info\/Kettering\/Kettering.php\" target=\"_d\">Kettering Group and the Kettering Timelin\u00a0-zarya.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.svengrahn.pp.se\/trackind\/getstart\/oldcyts.htm\" target=\"_d\">A Short History of the Kettering Group &#8211; SvenGrahn.pp.se<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kettering_Grammar_School#Space_research\" target=\"_d\">Kettering Grammar School &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this interesting history of the Kettering Satellite Tracking Group, a club of students organized\u00a0by teacher Geoffrey Perry\u00a0at the\u00a0Kettering Grammar School in Northamptonshire, England during the Cold War:\u00a0Kettering Cosmos: How school children exposed Soviet secret &#8211; BBC News. The group monitored Soviet radio communications\u00a0dealing with the space program and made a number of revelations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Kettering Satellite Tracking Group<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3fw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1665,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1665","url_meta":{"origin":12494,"position":0},"title":"Russian amateur group may have found lost Soviet Mars lander","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A group of Russian space enthusiasts may have spotted an image of a Soviet Mars lander that transmitted for a few seconds after landing on the Red Planet in 1971 before going permanently silent: Amateur space enthusiasts may have discovered missing Soviet Mars lander - The Verge NASA Mars Orbiter\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19552,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19552","url_meta":{"origin":12494,"position":1},"title":"Sputnik-1 lab test model leads Bonhams Air &#038; Space auction","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Bonhams auction house will hold The Air and Space Sale on September 17th. 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