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James A. Van Allen journal, October 1955-March 1958
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burning of the Nike. Later, on Monday, Frank got the word form the Convair people as follows: (1) From fast camera pictures of launching, flame on Nike booster went out at about 2.5 seconds, then came back in at ~2.7 seconds. (2) Accelerometer in Asp showed loss of acceleration corresponding to 2.5 seconds; and telemetering quit, to within 0.01 second at the time of resumption of burning on the photographs. Hence, it appears that the booster was burning erratically, During the off period the Asp may have moved away from the coupling slightly, then was hit as
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burning of the Nike. Later, on Monday, Frank got the word form the Convair people as follows: (1) From fast camera pictures of launching, flame on Nike booster went out at about 2.5 seconds, then came back in at ~2.7 seconds. (2) Accelerometer in Asp showed loss of acceleration corresponding to 2.5 seconds; and telemetering quit, to within 0.01 second at the time of resumption of burning on the photographs. Hence, it appears that the booster was burning erratically, During the off period the Asp may have moved away from the coupling slightly, then was hit as
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