<div dir="ltr"><h1><span class=""><img width="976" height="549" class="" alt="Geoff Perry, Derek Slater, Bob Christy and other pupils" src="http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/6188/production/_89286942_ce49a2ad-93e0-48b1-b948-56a7939b0ba7.jpg"><font size="1"><span class="">Image copyright</span>                  <span class="">The Times</span></font>                             </span><font size="1"><span class="">Image caption</span>                 </font><span class=""><font size="1">                    Teachers Geoff Perry (third from right) and Derek Slater (second from right) inspired their pupils, including Bob Christy (third from left) to track satellites</font> </span></h1><h1>How school children exposed Soviet secret</h1><p><em> BBC News</em> reports on the Kettering students who monitored Soviet satellites and discovered a secret launch site <br><br>                      The Kettering Group consisted originally of staff and pupils at the Kettering Grammar School (KGS) for Boys, Windmill Avenue, Kettering in Northamptonshire. It was originally styled &quot;The Kettering Grammar School Satellite Tracking Group&quot;, among its members were young women from the nearby Kettering High School for Girls. <br><br>                      The teachers involved were radio amateur <strong>Derek Slater G3FOZ</strong> and <strong>Geoff Perry</strong>, who in the 1990&#39;s gave several presentations about the groups work to the AMSAT-UK Colloquium. Geoff was fascinated by satellites and wanted to use them to teach his pupils about the Doppler effect. This led to them tracking a number of Soviet satellites and the discovery that the Soviets had a previously unknown launch base in Plesetsk. <br><br>                      Read the BBC News story at <br><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-36027407" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-36027407</a><br><br>                      The Kettering Group <br><a href="http://www.zarya.info/Kettering/Kettering.php" target="_blank">http://www.zarya.info/Kettering/Kettering.php</a></p></div>