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Old 07-11-2017, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
I feel your pain. In the 80's when I was flying every weekend in the summer, water features were the bane of my exsistance. SV's, Atlases, MR's, etc,--all drowned. Arguably the worst loss was possibly the AstroCam 110 with 21 exposures on the cartridge: came down in a tiny, tiny pond at the edge of a 20 acre field.

If I'd launched a rocket in the Sahara it would have somehow come down in water.


What's worse than that is an Astrocam with only one exposure left hanging from a 138kV transmission line. That happened to me in 1988. I was launching from over 2 miles away, but the wind direction changed as it was coming down. That thing taunted me for several weeks before it final fell off.
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