Achille (1933 - 2015) and his brother Giovanni Battista (born 1939) set up their own experimental listening station just outside Turin in the late 1950s. The brothers used a disused German bunker at a site named Torre Bert.[1] Working with scavenged and improvised equipment, they claimed to have successfully monitored transmissions from the Soviet Sputnik program (1 & 2) and Explorer 1, the first American satellite, in 1958 using equipment that recorded flight information such as telemetry, voice recordings and visual data.[3]
In the 1960s, the brothers released recordings alleged to be radio communications taken from secret Soviet Union space missions, including the purported dying sounds of a suffocating lost cosmonaut.[3] In total, the Judica-Cordiglia brothers released nine recordings over a period of four years.[citation needed] As compiled by Kris Hollington of the Fortean Times, a British monthly magazine that popularizes "anomalous phenomena",[citation needed] the quoted list of these is as follows:[2]
May 1960 Unnamed cosmonaut lost when his orbiting space capsule veered off course.
November 1960 The brothers picked up an SOS message in Morse code from a troubled spacecraft.
February 1961 Recorded the suffocation of a cosmonaut.
April 1961 Just prior to Yuri Gagarin’s flight, a capsule circled the Earth three times before re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
May 1961 Weak calls for help from an orbiting capsule.
October 1961 A Soviet spacecraft veered off course and vanished into deep space.
November 1962 A space capsule bounced off the Earth’s atmosphere during re-entry and disappeared.
November 1963 Unnamed female cosmonaut perished on re-entry.
April 1964 Cosmonaut lost when capsule burnt up on re-entry.[2]
The November 1960 recording, from 28 November, was one of their most famous recordings;[according to whom?] in it, after an hour spent listening to static, the two brothers purport to recognize an SOS signal that seemed to be moving away from the Earth.[citation needed] The story was picked up by a Swiss-Italian radio station and the brothers became the station’s space experts.[citation needed] In it, a faint SOSMorse Code signal has been purportedly sent from a troubled spacecraft leaving Earth's orbit.[4][full citation needed] In the May 1961 case, an orbiting spacecraft purportedly makes an appeal for help after going out of control.[citation needed] In the November 1963 case, the brothers said they recorded the voice of a female cosmonaut re-entering the Earth's atmosphere in a malfunctioning spacecraft; in the recording she is heard to have cried out, "I am hot" as it burnt up.[citation needed]
Since the 1960s critical analysis of the recordings has cast doubt on their provenance.[citation needed] For instance, audio transcripts reveal that none of the cosmonauts, who were supposed to be Soviet air force pilots, followed standard communication protocols, such as identifying themselves when speaking or using correct technical terminology.[5][better source needed][6] Likewise, some of the recordings contain disjointed sentences and grammatical errors (e.g. Russian: "наша передача будет сейчас", lit. '"our transmission will now"' ), and the speaker has an accent that does not sound Russian.[7][8][better source needed]
Though some of the transcripts record cosmonauts saying they are leaving Earth's orbit (i.e. heading into interplanetary or "deep" space), the crewed Vostok 3KAs could not reach escape velocity because their designs never contained secondary-burn propulsion units.[verification needed] This fact was inherent to the Vostok programme, a project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them to the surface of the planet safely.[verification needed]OKB-1 only required spacecraft with velocities that could reach Earth orbit (28,160 km/h or 17,500 mph), far less than the speed needed to break orbit (40,320 km/h or 25,050 mph).[original research?][verification needed] Propulsion units powerful enough to leave Earth's orbit did not begin to appear until the test firing of the RD-270 engine in 1969, and it was not until the N1 moon rocket (with the NK-33 engines) in 1974 that the Soviets built a spacecraft able to reach open space.[9][full citation needed][10] It is impossible to "accidentally" veer off into deep space without firing a rocket engine powerful enough to accelerate to escape velocity.[citation needed]. However, in terms of unpublished or secret Soviet programs, the meaning of these 1969 and 1974 dates are called into question upon observation that the Soviets had in fact demonstrated an ability to launch probes through escape velocity and beyond the moon (accidentally) at least 10-15 years earlier than this (the first confirmed incident occurring in 1959). Private Soviet transmissions originating from the lunar surface were also intercepted in 1966, by scientists at Jodrell Bank Observatory in England, which when decoded were found to include ground-level photographs of lunar terrain.
Legacy
In 1964 they won the Italian TV quiz show Fiera dei Sogni ('The Fair of Dreams'), which enabled them to visit NASA as their prize.[citation needed]
Their 1963 recording of the female cosmonaut, intended to have been used in the video game Half-Life 2, was cut at some point during development.[citation needed] It can be heard in the leaked beta level "hazard01" and in the official teaser trailer "Psyche."[citation needed]
In 2007, the brothers were the subject of a documentary called I pirati dello spazio (known in English as 'Space Hackers').[citation needed]
Fortean Times published an article on the brothers and their recordings of lost cosmonauts in March 2008.[2]
In March 2020, Giovanni Battista was interviewed by Vice regarding the brothers' story on the Extremes podcast Season 2 Episode 25 titled, "Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts".[11] It was also featured on a Vice article titled, "These Brothers Were Eavesdropping on Space Transmissions When They Heard Cries for Help", as an accompaniment to the podcast episode.[3]
^ abRatcliff, J. D. (April 1965). "Reader's Digest April 1965". Reader's Digest. p. 110. Archived from the original on 7 May 2006. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
^ abcdHollington, Kris (July 2008). . Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 6 February 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
^ abcd"These Brothers Were Eavesdropping on Space Transmissions When They Heard Cries for Help". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
^ abEpisode 05: Missing Cosmonauts. Dark Matters: Twisted But True. Science Channel. 14 December 2011.[full citation needed]
^Grahn, Sven (2 August 2008). "Notes on the space tracking activities and sensational claims made by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers". Sven's Space Place [self-published blog]. Retrieved 11 March 2022. I think that the Judica-Cordiglia brothers did run a tracking station and picked up signals from various spacecraft. However, for some reason they thought that they needed sensational stories maintain their image of a 'hot-shot' operation. Once they over-interpreted some receptions and made fantastic claims they were 'trapped' and had to continue to produce sensations.
^"Search for the Missing Cosmonauts". Skeptoid. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
^"Братья Джудика-Кордилья, космонавт Людмила". Информационный портал Орбита (in Russian). 28 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
^"Людмила, сгоревшая в космосе: что известно о жуткой истории катастрофы 17 мая 1961 года" (in Russian). Retrieved 6 November 2022.
^Siddiqi, Asif A. (2000). Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974. NASA. SP-2000-4408[full citation needed] See the following links for Part 1 (page 1-500) and Part 2 (page 501-1011) of this citation, in PDF form.
^Hall, Rex; David, Shayler (2001). The rocket men: Vostok & Voskhod, the first Soviet manned spaceflights. Springer. p. 350. ISBN185233391X.
^S2E5 - Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts, 2020-03-24, retrieved 2022-07-27
Further reading
Dossier Sputnik. ...Questo il mondo non lo saprà... di Judica Cordiglia Achille - Judica Cordiglia G. Battista, 2006 ISBN88-902027-8-5ISBN9788890202780
External links
Reader's Digest Article
I Pirati Dello Spazio (Pirates of Space) on YouTube Italian film on Judica-Cordiglia Brothers
January 06, 2023
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Judica Cordiglia redirects here For the comedian see Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Judica Cordiglia brothers news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Judica Cordiglia brothers are two Italian former amateur radio operators who made audio recordings which allegedly support the conspiracy theory that the Soviet space program covered up cosmonaut deaths in the 1960s 1 The pair claimed to have recorded several failed secret Soviet space missions These recordings have been the center of public interest for more than 50 years 2 3 The two brothers The brothers reported that they had recorded messages from secret missions during the Soviet Vostok program in the early 1960s Contents 1 Background 2 Recordings 3 Skepticism over the recordings 4 Legacy 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksBackground EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Achille 1933 2015 and his brother Giovanni Battista born 1939 set up their own experimental listening station just outside Turin in the late 1950s The brothers used a disused German bunker at a site named Torre Bert 1 Working with scavenged and improvised equipment they claimed to have successfully monitored transmissions from the Soviet Sputnik program 1 amp 2 and Explorer 1 the first American satellite in 1958 using equipment that recorded flight information such as telemetry voice recordings and visual data 3 Recordings EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message In the 1960s the brothers released recordings alleged to be radio communications taken from secret Soviet Union space missions including the purported dying sounds of a suffocating lost cosmonaut 3 In total the Judica Cordiglia brothers released nine recordings over a period of four years citation needed As compiled by Kris Hollington of the Fortean Times a British monthly magazine that popularizes anomalous phenomena citation needed the quoted list of these is as follows 2 May 1960 Unnamed cosmonaut lost when his orbiting space capsule veered off course November 1960 The brothers picked up an SOS message in Morse code from a troubled spacecraft February 1961 Recorded the suffocation of a cosmonaut April 1961 Just prior to Yuri Gagarin s flight a capsule circled the Earth three times before re entering the Earth s atmosphere May 1961 Weak calls for help from an orbiting capsule October 1961 A Soviet spacecraft veered off course and vanished into deep space November 1962 A space capsule bounced off the Earth s atmosphere during re entry and disappeared November 1963 Unnamed female cosmonaut perished on re entry April 1964 Cosmonaut lost when capsule burnt up on re entry 2 The November 1960 recording from 28 November was one of their most famous recordings according to whom in it after an hour spent listening to static the two brothers purport to recognize an SOS signal that seemed to be moving away from the Earth citation needed The story was picked up by a Swiss Italian radio station and the brothers became the station s space experts citation needed In it a faint SOS Morse Code signal has been purportedly sent from a troubled spacecraft leaving Earth s orbit 4 full citation needed In the May 1961 case an orbiting spacecraft purportedly makes an appeal for help after going out of control citation needed In the November 1963 case the brothers said they recorded the voice of a female cosmonaut re entering the Earth s atmosphere in a malfunctioning spacecraft in the recording she is heard to have cried out I am hot as it burnt up citation needed Skepticism over the recordings EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Since the 1960s critical analysis of the recordings has cast doubt on their provenance citation needed For instance audio transcripts reveal that none of the cosmonauts who were supposed to be Soviet air force pilots followed standard communication protocols such as identifying themselves when speaking or using correct technical terminology 5 better source needed 6 Likewise some of the recordings contain disjointed sentences and grammatical errors e g Russian nasha peredacha budet sejchas lit our transmission will now and the speaker has an accent that does not sound Russian 7 8 better source needed Though some of the transcripts record cosmonauts saying they are leaving Earth s orbit i e heading into interplanetary or deep space the crewed Vostok 3KAs could not reach escape velocity because their designs never contained secondary burn propulsion units verification needed This fact was inherent to the Vostok programme a project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them to the surface of the planet safely verification needed OKB 1 only required spacecraft with velocities that could reach Earth orbit 28 160 km h or 17 500 mph far less than the speed needed to break orbit 40 320 km h or 25 050 mph original research verification needed Propulsion units powerful enough to leave Earth s orbit did not begin to appear until the test firing of the RD 270 engine in 1969 and it was not until the N1 moon rocket with the NK 33 engines in 1974 that the Soviets built a spacecraft able to reach open space 9 full citation needed 10 It is impossible to accidentally veer off into deep space without firing a rocket engine powerful enough to accelerate to escape velocity citation needed However in terms of unpublished or secret Soviet programs the meaning of these 1969 and 1974 dates are called into question upon observation that the Soviets had in fact demonstrated an ability to launch probes through escape velocity and beyond the moon accidentally at least 10 15 years earlier than this the first confirmed incident occurring in 1959 Private Soviet transmissions originating from the lunar surface were also intercepted in 1966 by scientists at Jodrell Bank Observatory in England which when decoded were found to include ground level photographs of lunar terrain Legacy EditIn 1964 they won the Italian TV quiz show Fiera dei Sogni The Fair of Dreams which enabled them to visit NASA as their prize citation needed Their 1963 recording of the female cosmonaut intended to have been used in the video game Half Life 2 was cut at some point during development citation needed It can be heard in the leaked beta level hazard01 and in the official teaser trailer Psyche citation needed In 2007 the brothers were the subject of a documentary called I pirati dello spazio known in English as Space Hackers citation needed Fortean Times published an article on the brothers and their recordings of lost cosmonauts in March 2008 2 A dramatization of the brothers story called Listen Up by Glen Neath was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009 citation needed In 2011 the brothers story was featured on the Science Channel TV show Dark Matters Twisted But True 4 In later life Achille became a cardiologist while Giovanni Battista worked for the Italian police providing phone taps in criminal investigations citation needed In March 2020 Giovanni Battista was interviewed by Vice regarding the brothers story on the Extremes podcast Season 2 Episode 25 titled Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts 11 It was also featured on a Vice article titled These Brothers Were Eavesdropping on Space Transmissions When They Heard Cries for Help as an accompaniment to the podcast episode 3 See also EditEscape velocityReferences Edit a b Ratcliff J D April 1965 Reader s Digest April 1965 Reader s Digest p 110 Archived from the original on 7 May 2006 Retrieved July 27 2022 a b c d Hollington Kris July 2008 Lost in Space Fortean Times Archived from the original on 6 February 2008 Retrieved 11 March 2022 a b c d These Brothers Were Eavesdropping on Space Transmissions When They Heard Cries for Help www vice com Retrieved 2022 07 27 a b Episode 05 Missing Cosmonauts Dark Matters Twisted But True Science Channel 14 December 2011 full citation needed Grahn Sven 2 August 2008 Notes on the space tracking activities and sensational claims made by the Judica Cordiglia brothers Sven s Space Place self published blog Retrieved 11 March 2022 I think that the Judica Cordiglia brothers did run a tracking station and picked up signals from various spacecraft However for some reason they thought that they needed sensational stories maintain their image of a hot shot operation Once they over interpreted some receptions and made fantastic claims they were trapped and had to continue to produce sensations Search for the Missing Cosmonauts Skeptoid Retrieved 6 November 2022 Bratya Dzhudika Kordilya kosmonavt Lyudmila Informacionnyj portal Orbita in Russian 28 November 2021 Retrieved 6 November 2022 Lyudmila sgorevshaya v kosmose chto izvestno o zhutkoj istorii katastrofy 17 maya 1961 goda in Russian Retrieved 6 November 2022 Siddiqi Asif A 2000 Challenge to Apollo The Soviet Union and the Space Race 1945 1974 NASA SP 2000 4408 full citation needed See the following links for Part 1 page 1 500 and Part 2 page 501 1011 of this citation in PDF form Hall Rex David Shayler 2001 The rocket men Vostok amp Voskhod the first Soviet manned spaceflights Springer p 350 ISBN 185233391X S2E5 Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts 2020 03 24 retrieved 2022 07 27Further reading EditDossier Sputnik Questo il mondo non lo sapra di Judica Cordiglia Achille Judica Cordiglia G Battista 2006 ISBN 88 902027 8 5 ISBN 9788890202780External links EditReader s Digest Article I Pirati Dello Spazio Pirates of Space on YouTube Italian film on Judica Cordiglia Brothers The Lost Cosmonauts web site archived from 2018 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Judica Cordiglia brothers amp oldid 1125444030, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
