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From: phung@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Rick Phung)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Launch failure today
Message-ID: <7912@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 03:46:59 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.024459.15721@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: C.S. Dept, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In <1991Jun19.024459.15721@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:


>   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.
			 ^^^^^^^

    I don't think it was a Pegasus either, since it was ground-launched
(as opposed to from wing of B-52).  The only other details I heard was that
it happened ~25 sec. into the flight, and that a "million-dollar scientific
package" was ejected which parachuted into the ocean.  The "package" still
hasn't been recovered.

>--
> Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student  | If ignorance is bliss
> neufeld@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca    Ad astra  | why aren't there more
> cneufeld@{pnet91,pro-cco}.cts.com               | happy people?
> "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" |

--
Rick Phung
phung@rex.cs.tulane.edu
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA