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- From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
- Subject: Re: Logo on Delta rocket
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.160750.21403@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <C0ILM5.L2o.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:03:43 GMT
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- In article <C0ILM5.L2o.1@cs.cmu.edu>, MILLS@ASTRO.dnet.ge.com (Bob Mills 609-490-3211) writes...
- >soc1070@CRABAPPLE.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (Tim Harincar) writes
- >>
- >>What about the big RCA logo on the Delta rockets (as seen in "the
- >>Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology")? I hope RCA had to pay
- >>for that.
- >>
- >I'm not 100% sure, but I think it worked something like this:
- >1. Customer (RCA Americom) contracts with satellite vendor
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- .
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- In addition to the reasons already mentioned, in the case of the Delta 3920,
- RCA funded a significant part of the development costs of the launch vehicle as
- well. They needed something to launch their second generation Satcoms (aka
- Advance Satcom family) and the shuttle schedule was too late. The 3920 design
- goal was to carry an Advanced Satcom and it's associated PAM-D.
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- For those launches, they were entitled to a giant logo :-)
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- In general, the Delta often had the logo of the client organization along with
- the triangular Delta logo (sometimes the Delta logo had a mission logo merged
- into it) as far back as Aerial-1 (UK satellite). Some of the SDIO missions
- (Delta Star, Delta Stake) have had interesting logos.
-
- gary
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