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black background PSA USN Transit IVB Navy navigational satellite and its pickaback rider Transit Research and Altitude Control TRAAC an experiment in altitude stabilization by use of the Earths gravity shown moments after separation in orbit some miles up. Transit IVB is another major step by the Bureau of Naval Weapons to provide