Word: rocketting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Initial attempts to locate an explosive satellite booster rocket spotted underwater by sonar failed, and Navy divers intensified their offshore search yesterday for wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger...
...pound booster, composed of two solid-fuel rocket motors, was believed to be in an area 18 miles northeast of the launch site, where parts of the shuttle's crew compartment, one of its two solid fuel rocket boosters and other debris have been reported...
Norton said the 22 divers aboard the Navy salvage ship USS Preserver concentrated their efforts in a zone where "good sonar images" showed the 10-by-17 foot "inertial upper stage" rocket was resting on the ocean bottom...
...problem, as outlined in a classified report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, is the possible development of a new Soviet weapon--the "fast-burn" rocket. According to the report, such a device could speed into orbit and shut down its engines before the heat-seeking sensors of SDI satellites could home in on its jetstream. The report predicts that the Soviets could "develop, produce and deploy" fast-burning rockets as early...
...report had been acknowledged by the SDI office, one human cog in the military-industrial machine was busy refuting its conclusions. Speaking on the condition that he not be identified, the official ventured that, in his opinion, the Russians would not be able to develop a fast-burn rocket for at least fifteen years...