Genesis probe crashes

Wally,

Yes, that was the Corona missions. And, don't worry it was declassified in
the Clinton Era. I'll email you the site when I get a chance. It's weird
but I can even say Satellite and imagery in the same sentence without
getting in trouble.

Back to the point, the "cannisters" were deployed at certain times and
picked up with a C129 or C130. A few cannisters were lost this way but it
was really rare. BTW a bad chute statistically happens 1 in 32000. Or at
least that is what they tell people at jump school.

BP

"BP" wrote in message
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Wally,

Yes, that was the Corona missions. And, don't worry it was declassified
in
the Clinton Era. I'll email you the site when I get a chance. It's weird
but I can even say Satellite and imagery in the same sentence without
getting in trouble.

Ahh, cheers. I thought I'd seen it somewhere.


Back to the point, the "cannisters" were deployed at certain times and
picked up with a C129 or C130. A few cannisters were lost this way but it
was really rare. BTW a bad chute statistically happens 1 in 32000. Or at
least that is what they tell people at jump school.

I'm hoping to do a parachute jump of my own for my 50th birthday. Hmmm. I
think I'll opt for a tandem jump.

BP wrote:

Back to the point, the "cannisters" were deployed at certain times and
picked up with a C129 or C130. A few cannisters were lost this way but it
was really rare. BTW a bad chute statistically happens 1 in 32000. Or at
least that is what they tell people at jump school.


I recently heard a radio interview with a guy who did a hundred
consecutive jumps (in just under twelve hours IIRC) as a fund-raising
stunt. He said, rather matter-of-factly, that his 'chute failed on
the 37th (or something) jump and he had to use his reserve. On being
asked how he was able to continue after that, he said he just didn't
let himself think about it until he'd taken off again ...

--
Odysseus

In message , Wally
Anglesea writes

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om...

Well for one thing, they could have done some practice runs on this
new recovery method on less valuable satellites before going live on
such a critical project.


I'm prepared to be shot down over this. But in the past, weren't film
canisters dropped by spy satellites in the '60s captured this way? I can
remember seeing a docco on it sometime ago. Or was it a "proposal"?


Of course they were. It was a routine practice, though I think
declassified records show they dropped a few :-)
Among other things, it was the inspiration for "Ice Station Zebra".