Re: NOAA-K Rocket?
Phillip Clark (psclark@dircon.co.uk)
Sun, 17 May 1998 19:35:38 +0100 (BST)
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Jason Hatton wrote:
> Does anybody know the catalogue number of the rocket booster
> associated with the recent NOAA-K (25338 / 98-030B) launch (A Titan II
> upper stage). I tried querying the OIG database using international
> designator & name, but found nothing. Has the rocket already decayed?
In the weeks after launch these payloads usually have some debris
catalogued, but there is no rocket stage. The satellite carries an
integral orbit injection motor and all of the Titan-23G stages are
sub-orbital.
Phillip Clark
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