[Milsurplus] Service Life

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

It was launched on the Atlas 5 which is the latest version of the Atlas and vastly different from the Cold War versions.
 
One of the "improvements" is that is uses Russian made RD-180 engines:

<http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/docs/product_cards/AV_product_card.pdf?

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
To: James Duffer <dufferjames at hotmail.com>
Cc: wa5cab at cs.com, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:22:20 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Service Life

NASA just launched the new Mars Rover a couple of days ago...  on a 1950s
vintage Atlas booster.

-John

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