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The Kettering Group
Tyneside, UK
2025 May 16
Friday, Day 136

Curated by:
Robert Christy


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Kettering Group Equipment in Detail:

The Tracking Station

Radio Receivers

Radio Aerials

Additional Radio Equipment

Timing

Calculating and Computing

Recording

Archives

Miscellanea

Racal RA-217 Brochure


Elsewhere on the Web:

British Pathé News Film
Contemporary 1966 film of the tracking equipment

Group Records

Records of satellites tracked, analysis and Group history are part of the Collection left by the late Geoff Perry.

The archive consists of the verbatim logs created at the Kettering Grammar School satellite tracking station plus summary logs that include observations from other stations. There are analyses of those observations and of orbital information that all go into understanding the history and development of the Soviet/Russian space programme.

Item Purpose Note Currently Residing
Contemporary Reception Logs Archive of signal reception notes Dated series of school exercise books containing original handwritten reception observations Geoff Perry Collection, passed to Science Museum, London in 2018.
Geoff Perry Archive Preservation of physical Kettering Group records Summary logs, analysis work, written articles-originals, magnetic and paper tape, computer records Geoff Perry Collection, passed to Science Museum, London in 2018.
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