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I think that Atlas Centaur is the closest match - I don't know how you could
ever associate this with a particular mission, unless you could get a part number off the thing or there was something very unique about it. Sounds like an excuse to make a trip to Spanish Cay, if you ask me. I'm sure it's horrible down there. C. Newport |
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"C. Newport" wrote in message ...
I think that Atlas Centaur is the closest match - I don't know how you could ever associate this with a particular mission, unless you could get a part number off the thing or there was something very unique about it. Sounds like an excuse to make a trip to Spanish Cay, if you ask me. I'm sure it's horrible down there. C. Newport For starters, we can eliminate some vehicles. The first ten Centaur heat shield panels either had no horizontal black stripe at the top or had more space between the stripe and the "UNITED" lettering than this artifact. We can also eliminate AC-43, which suffered an Atlas engine failure not long after liftoff, and AC-67, which was struck by lightning shortly after liftoff and had to be destroyed. There were six other vehicle failures in the 1967-89 AC-11 to AC-68 run (AC-17, 21, 24, 33, 59, and 62) but those all occurred after the Centaur panels had separated. That leaves 56 possibilities, which include both historic missions (like Surveyor 4-7, Mariner 6-10, and, most historically, Pioneer 10-11) and more mundane flights (FLTSATCOM, INTELSAT, etc). I'm interested in AC-21. That mission failed because the payload shroud failed to separate. Could a hung-up Centaur insulation panel, one that didn't drop until futher down range than usual, have been involved? - Ed Kyle |
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