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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Latest Pegasus news?
- Message-ID: <BzqMxr.MuH@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:34:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com> steveha@microsoft.com (Steve Hastings) writes:
- >What are the Pegasus folks up to right now?
-
- The third launch is slated for January. If that works out okay, they hope
- to ramp things up very quickly in 1993. There's a backlog of payloads
- waiting for the second-launch problems to be solved.
-
- (Yes, problems plural: apparently they had both a first/second-stage
- separation problem, and a fairing-separation problem.) (Yet more proof
- that God did not mean us to build rockets that shed parts on the way up. :-))
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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