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of a basic Thor configuration to serve as both the warhead carrier and
instrumentation carrier. Additional instrumentation having less stringent
placement requirements would be positioned by sounding rockets.
It is
proposed to use the basic Thor configuration with minor modifications
to the operational re-entry vehicle as a means of a acconplishing Operation
Fishbowl. Attached to the exterior of the vehicle, at the base, would be
three ejfectable scientific instrumentation pods.”
Over-all funding for the three shot program is estimated to be around
$40 million, $15 million of which would be warhead carriers,
$12 million
of which would be for small rockets and payloads and the rest between
tracking and position stations, communications, data analysis, travel, etc.
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These costs are exclusive of JIF-8 costs.
Lead time is estimated to be
five months under the most accelerated high priority conditions and one
year under normal conditions.
"“Liniting items aptear to be payload design
and fabrication, procurement and installation of ground electronic equipment, Thor ground support equipment installations, and the training of
sufficient launch crews to satisfy the small vehicle progran."
Later sections discuss the Thor in some detail including carrier costs for
four Thors and associated equipment, details of varicus options fer the
telemetry and tracking systems, nuclear safety considerations for the
launches in Fishbowl, a listing and description of various experiments
to be fielded such as Firebali, Blackout, Gamma Scanner, and physical
chemistry, chronologies of the three specific planned high eltituce
launches listing the varicus soundi mg rockets as well as the Thor, the order
in which they would he launched and the time at which thoy would te Isenchod
relative to one another and the final section on small vehicles which in-
cludes the Nike Cajun and the Shot Put, a NASA small rocket.