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Topic: Covers from USA Unmanned Rocket Launch sites
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yeknom-ecaps
Member Posts: 660
From: Northville MI USA
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 09-24-2006 06:29 PM
   
There are many rocket launch sites around the USA but I don't know of any list of ones where covers exist for at least one of the launches from that location. I would like to EXCLUDE for this list the rocket mail flights as those happen in hundreds of various locations. The ones that come to mind that I have seen - and I know I am missing places: Copper Harbor MI;
Eglin AFB FL;
Fairbanks AK or Chitanika AK (Poker Flats Range);
Forks WA;
Frederick OK;
Gerlach NV;
KSC/CC;
Kodiak AK;
Kwajalein Atoll (APO 95555 cancels);
Matagordo TX (spelling?);
Mojave CA;
Nunn CO;
Pt. Mugu CA;
Roswell NM (covers exist???);
Sheboygan WI;
Vandenberg AFB (also Lompoc CA cancels);
Wallops Island VA;
Waimea HI (Barking Sands);
White Sands Missile Range NM; Corinne UT;
Edwards AFB;
Marshall SFC all have had rocket engine firings Any others???? |
Danno
Member Posts: 572
From: Ridgecrest, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 09-25-2006 10:22 AM
Wake Island Launch Center.... and I wonder how you would get a SeaLaunch cover? |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-25-2006 12:33 PM
If you want to include missile launches, add China Lake, Ca. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-25-2006 02:57 PM
That was Matagorda Island, TX, for the Conestoga suborbital flights. Also Fort Bliss, TX, Palestine, TX (balloons mostly), Holloman AFB, NM, and Ellington AFB, TX (still checking on this one). Even our own Florida Space Coast area had a couple of demonstration rocket firings at Patrick AFB, FL, back in the 1950s. |
yeknom-ecaps
Member Posts: 660
From: Northville MI USA
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 09-25-2006 04:18 PM
Sea Launch covers have typically been done from Long Beach CA where Sea Launch HQ resides as there is no post office close to the launch site itself.Poozer - are there covers from China Lake for the launches? Ken - thanks for the update, wasn't sure of Ft Bliss or HAFB covers. |
Danno
Member Posts: 572
From: Ridgecrest, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 09-25-2006 05:42 PM
quote:
Originally posted by yeknom-ecaps:
Sea Launch covers have typically been done from Long Beach CA where Sea Launch HQ resides as there is no post office close to the launch site itself.
Ugh! I was hoping to hear about a ship-board cancel. I guess that is only military...
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Danno
Member Posts: 572
From: Ridgecrest, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 09-25-2006 05:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Ken Havekotte:
That was Matagorda Island, TX, for the Conestoga suborbital flights.
Hey Ken, I did not know there were other flights of the Conestoga other than the one disaster out of Wallops. How 'bout that! Thanks - Dan |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-25-2006 07:06 PM
Dan--Yes, there was a small rocket called the Percheron that was built by Space Services, Inc.(SSI) in 1981. This was the first time that a rocket was test fired from Matagorda Island, off the Texas coast. Unfortunately, it blew up! The successful Conestoga-1 launch took place on Sept. 9, 1982 from the Texas island. The Conestoga booster, a modified M56A1 solid rocket motor that was obtained from NASA, was originally a Minuteman-1 second stage. The 36-foot-high booster took off with 50,000 pounds of thurst to an altitude of nearly 200 miles. The payload was only 40 gallons of water that rocketed 321 miles downrange.
This was a giant success for the 12-member SSI team, that included original astronaut Deke Slayton. |
Danno
Member Posts: 572
From: Ridgecrest, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 09-26-2006 10:04 AM
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This was a giant success for the 12-member SSI team, that included original astronaut Deke Slayton.[/B]
Yes, my old teacher Marshall Kaplan was the Conestoga chief engineer and had a few choice stories about why the Wallops flight failed. He was also the guy who (at the last minute) came up with the algorithims to safely bring Skylab down. |
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