Titan Fails To Attain Orbit
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CAPE KENNEDY, September 2. Scientists today studied the “last words” of the new Titan-3A military space rocket to find out what shattered the Air Force’s hopes for a full success on the maiden flight.
The 124 ft rocket’s previously untried third stage stopped burning from one to 10 seconds too early yesterday and failed to give enough push to its 37501 b dummy pay-load into orbit However, project . officials, said they were satisfied with the new rocket’s over-all performance particularly the third stage’s first six minutes of operation. Brigadier-General J. S. Bleymaier, the project manager, said the shot met 95 per cent of its test objectives, including perfect performance by the rocket’s first and second stages. Project officials said further
study of telemetry data from the third stage was needed to determine the cause of the failure. The next Titan-3A launching was set for November. The Ti'tan-3A will be the core of a more • powerful Titan-3C. rocket, expected to fly for the first time next spring. The bigger booster is expected to orbit a manned military laboratory in 1968..
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30536, 3 September 1964, Page 17
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