...the USSR was engaged in launching a series of lunar probes using a version of the Vostok booster. I was wondering whether the nose fairing was discarded during ascent or went into space along with the upper (second) stage and the payload. On those launches that were succesful, of course. Cannot find anything about a nose fairing for those launches on the Internet, but did find a photo of what might be the Luna probe booster---and the fairing appears to be a single unit. I would have thought they would have designed a two-piece throwaway fairing by then. Why carry the extra weight any farther than you have to? _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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