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Not all of the D series used "radio" guidance.
There were D "AIG" or All Inrtia Guidance boosters. I can't remember exctly when they being launched but it was before June of 1962 when I left the Cape. The pod on the side was much larger than the regular D series so that they could fit the guidance system in it. As I vaguely recall, the AIG guidance was built "ARMA". Can't recall much more than that since it's been a long time and I was in telemetry at the time. By the spring of 1963 we were launching mostly the E and F series at the Cape. Harry wrote in message oups.com... The "67D" number was the Atlas "tail number". It showed that this was the 67th D-series Atlas booster built - one of several Atlas-D boosters that were built on Convair's ICBM production line for the Mercury Atlas program. Other D-series Atlas vehicles, which had radio-inertial guidance, were used for ICBM test launches, served as operational missiles on standby, or were topped by Agena upper stages for unmanned space missions. - Ed Kyle http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/ |
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H Brown wrote:
Not all of the D series used "radio" guidance. There were D "AIG" or All Inrtia Guidance boosters. I can't remember exctly when they being launched but it was before June of 1962 when I left the Cape. The pod on the side was much larger than the regular D series so that they could fit the guidance system in it. As I vaguely recall, the AIG guidance was built "ARMA". Can't recall much more than that since it's been a long time and I was in telemetry at the time. By the spring of 1963 we were launching mostly the E and F series at the Cape. Harry According to: "http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-16.html" and: "http://www.geocities.com/atlas_missile/" component testing of the new Bosh ARMA all-inertial guidance system for the Atlas E missiles began on modified Atlas D missiles in March 1960. The first Atlas E launch (a failure) occurred on Oct 11, 1960. The first Atlas E success took place four months later. The last Atlas D R&D test at the Cape reportedly occurred on Jan 23, 1961. After that the only Atlas D launches from the Cape were for space launch (or in the case of NASA's Project FIRE, space R&D) purposes. - Ed Kyle |
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Super news!
Can I order mine now? - Ed Kyle |
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