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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Launch failure today
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.045745.26088@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 04:57:45 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.024459.15721@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun19.024459.15721@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>   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.

It was a suborbital microgravity launch, being done by OSC's Space Data
subsidiary.  "Prospector" is the name of the launcher, which I think is
yet another of those slap-some-existing-solids-together things.
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