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From: neufeld@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Launch failure today
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.024459.15721@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 02:44:59 GMT

   Well, I just saw a throwaway bite on the evening news relating to the
destruction by range safety of an unmanned rocket. The footage had a
round decal with Orbital Sciences Corporation on it, and the same
written across the bottom of the screen, and the voice in the original
broadcast, though obscured by the local newsguy, did include the word
"prospector".
   What was this launch? I wasn't aware of any prospectors due up in the
next little while. While we're at it, what was the launch vehicle? It
sure didn't look like a Pegasus.


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