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Show The Salt Lake Trityane, Wednesday, February 3, 1964 Army Poises Rocket for Utah Firing GREEN RIVER (UPI) - An eight-foot research rocket called "Loki" was posed for launching from a site near this eastern; Utah town Wednesday on a flight; f designed to check out launch! I and control equipment. i I THE SOLID-FUEL rocket will! be the first ever fired from the Green River test site, which will: go into full operation later this, month. j The Army Is preparing the; launch site for firings of a spe-i cial test vehicle, the four-stage! "Athena." i THE ATENA, used to simulate reentry of larger intercontinental ballastic missiles, will thrunder from Green River to the White Sands missile range, 470 miles away in New Mexico. However, the smaller Loki rocket will make only a 40-mile II::*,t, landing in an impact area i oa:r Moab, Utah.. Salt Lake Trib 9 Feb WITH THAT configuration1 it Utah to Open Athena Test can put a 50-pound payload into ,a reentry velocity of a minimum of 22,000 feet a second at an altitude of 250,000 feet. A two-stage version can be An Athena rocket will climb Used in a Pr°gram which re-skyward from a launching pad quires "long residence" above near Green River Monday ••the atmosPnere ~ for example, In a matter of minutes it will Up to 40° seconds-be zeroing in on an i m p a c t F 0 K LIGHTWEIGHT p a y-pomt m the Army's W h i t e loads or payloads requiring low Sands Missile Range, 450 miles-reentry velocities, the three-to the south in New Mexico, stage Athena can be used. THE FIRING will be the first On launch Monday> the Athe-of more than 70 to be conducted na Wl11 fly a modified ballistic by the Ballistic Systems Divi- fejectory- On reentry. the third sion of the Air Force Systems an fourth stages wiU fire in se'i Command. queijce to,4rive the p a y 1 o a d 1 In essence, the program is de- ^™Tard> ^ %U S simulating j signed to provide information on 1CBM^eentry speeds. _ _ f 'intercontinental ballistic missile THE 40-MILLION dollar test reentry, radar and tracking sys- series will be conducted over a terns and nose cone reentry period of 48 months. problems. Green River was chosen for THE ATHENA affords the the,.lau"ching area because it means of getting the job done B ^^ ™ llne With previous at relatively little expense. ^^nd ^issile flights of the A versatile bird, the Athena pf^!"8 J™^16 tests fromj principally is a ' four. stagei!Bandmg, San Juan County, and solid propellant vehicle built of ;,W?ga,te;. N'M" predominantly off - the - shelf ^ Monday s fmng ls expected to1 parts by Atlantic R e s e a r p* a hlgh-altltude, steep-angle j Corp r. .; reentry test. . •- ;,•,. »^u, WSMR, 20 Nov 6k SEAT BELTS - Mr. Brown, Logistics Division, Plans and Operations, is presented as certificate as a charter member of the Kangaroo Club by Col. Karl F. Eldund, P&O director, The club is composed of people who averted more serious injury in automobile accidents through the use of seat belts. |
