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Show Third Athena Test Shot The Salt -take Tribune, 6 June 1964, Salt Lake City, Utah GREEN RIVER, (UPI) - A third attempt to launch the trouble-plagued Athena missile on a tesrflight to White Sands Missile ilange in New Mexico was postponed Friday because of heavy overcast. AN MB FORCE spokesman said the launching was postpon until June 9 because heavy bloud j cover prevented optical observation of the eight-ton rocket which was scheduled to fly 450 mies from a launch complex near here. Two previous attempts to successfully launch the Athene end- ed in failure. The maiden flight of the test rocket Feb. 10 malfunctioned and crashed to earth hear Duranog, Colo. The second launching last month was destroyed 61 seconds after liftoff because the rocket went course. off THE ATHENA program is de-/ised to test re-entry friction of, intercontinental ballistic mis-, siles. The 53-foot rocket is' dubbed by technicians the "flying junkpile" because it is assembled from parts of other missiles. t> JS EH •to e s Castle Dale, Utah, Thursday, January 16, 1964 ',, i missile to be at GR range Athena Probe Of Misfire " earing Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 - The Air Force will complete its investigation this week of the recent Athena missile misfire, Sen. Wallace F Bennett (R-Utah) reported 'Tuesday "I'M GLAD TiSV%tthe investigation will be completed rapidly enough to permit 'the Athena program to continue on schedule," Sen. Bennett said. The Utah Republican asked for the probe after the 50-foot, eight-ton Athena was fired from' Green River, Utah, Feb. 10, and instead of landing at White Sands, New Mexico, it fell near Colo A Loki research rocket will be fired from the new launch complex at Green River, January 24 to give White Sands an opportunity for checkout of equipment prior to the upcom-ing Air Force Athena missile tests. : The Loki, not related to the Athena study of the physics of re-entry, will impact in a pre-determined area south of Moab. About 30 residents of this area will evacuate their home for the Loki firing in accordance with contracts with the govern- j ment. The evacuation period or the 24th will be from 6 a.m till 6 p.m. Under terms of the contracts worked out with the residents of the three evacuation tracts involved in the Athena firings, Athena Assembled The Athena vehicles, which will impact at intercontinental ballistic missile speeds on White Sands, are being fired: by the Air Force Balistic Systems Division, Norton Air Force Base, Calif. Instrumentation the government pays a per on the White Sands range wil| diem rate-based on the num-] perform the analysis of the re-' ber of people in each fainiW entering payloads. and the distance that must be! Officials of the Atlantic Re-traveled- to residents for thej search Corp. the firm in char-times they are away from their ge of design, assembly and homes, usually about 12 hours) testing of Athena, announced at a time. i Saturday that Athena was assembled and given a launcher test-fitting week. during the past HE SAID IT endangered populated areas by going 30 degrees off course and flying only 220, miles instead of an expected 450 miles. j, Meanwhile, officials of Atlantic Reserach Corp., the directors of the Athena program, informed the Senator that the next firing will go off as scheduled early next month.: • / |
