ecquigaent.
The beacon used can be received by the PzV on ARC/ET-ARA 25 Soniag
gear up to a ranse of 15 ailes, URD/+ bowing gear used by the Laasing to a
.
range of 3 ailes, ami by both the Lansing and Safeguard og the Sandia porcable
D/F sets to the same rane.
The Lansing was scheduled to return the pod to Johaston by LOY om Later
than 3 + 10 bours, regardless of the mmber of instrumentation cones still
in the water.
were aboard.
The Safeguard was to return to Jobnstod as soon as all sxnplers
Lf any objects had not been recovered by daylight the PzV, aiced
by helicopters from che Baxer, was to make a systematic search of the impact
area for dye-earker slicks.
Objects found by this method were to be piczed
up by helicopters at the discretion of the Recovery Operations Officer.
Samiia
was to have one representative in the Lansing CIC, and a D/F set operatoradvisor to the recovery party aboard both the Lansing and the Safeguard.
There
were to be rad-safe monitors aboard both ships.
For Orange the recovery plan was essentially the same as for Teak, with
the following exceptions:
(1) the floating dry-dock, the Belle Crove, was
scheduled to search for the 72, 000-foot instrementation nose cone which was
programed to impact 27 miles north of the nain impact area; (2) the portable
D/F set on the Lansing was to be transferred to the Belle Grove; and (3) if
all objects were not recovered by daylight, the WADC pod was to be transferred
from the Lansing to Johnston Island by helicopter rather than by ship, thus
saving the Lansing from making the Gy-mile round trip to Johnston,
5.2.5
Resulres of Teak and Orange Recovery Operations
.
On Teak, as previously stated, the sampler rockets appareatly broke up
shortly after second-stage burnout.
Both nose cones were recovered from the
water within one nile of the launcher.
po flight functions had occurred.
Exaninsution of the debris .sbows that
Both wind-screen split rings, aad possibly
the wind screens themselves, failed before i=pact.
these failures vill be found in Section 8.1.4.
Further, discussion of
With these exceptions, the
mose cones appeared to have been intact on impact.
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.
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Four the the six instrumentation nose cones were recovered, and all but
Station 39 were sonitored by URD/4 until ispact.
The P2V found aose cones
frog Stations 55 and 39 by means of the honing beacon and aarked then vith
LIC