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I haven't bought any Aerotech products in decades, but I believe they and their sister company Industrial Solid Propulsion were bought RocketAdventure and later by RCS, Rocket Motor Components.
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If that happened with the fairing, an Atlas-Agena D/Mariner 3 model would look pretty "buggered-up," and would--not having a guidance system--probably fly as "well" as it looked. (Some years ago, I saw comments elsewhere online that a Mariner 3 and Mariner 4 "comparative space hardware archaeology" expedition would provide interesting and useful engineering data on how two identical spacecraft--one fully exposed to the space environment [Mariner 4] and one at least partially shielded from it [Mariner 3, still folded up "atop" its Agena D, under a wrecked full or partial payload fairing]--had been affected by the conditions in interplanetary space, including the unfiltered sunlight.)
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Estes has only done that once with the re-labeled AeroTech motors. It does not appeared to have been successful. I can't see the new management of Estes manufacturing any kits that do not fly with THIER motors. After all, the money is in the motor sales.
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Quest planned to release large D, E and F black powder motors for their kits but it didn't work out.
Some pre-production samples of these motors did make it out for several people to test. I believe there may be a thread here on YORF about this.
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Bob- What was the 'fall through' on those motors not making it to market? Was it technical problems, marketing issues, performance issues or other? Earl
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I don't doubt Quest's attempt to develop higher-impulse motors for their larger kits (as your posted picture shows; I particularly remember that big "off-size" D motor that they listed for a time [I don't know if one could have actually bought any, as I never tried to order one]), but they haven't let the non-availability of high-impulse Quest motors kill off their line of big D/E/F motor-powered "Advanced Rocketry Kits," as they're still selling them (see: http://www.questaerospace.com/Advan...06_3443197.aspx ). I know that they can now offer such high-impulse Aerotech motors with those large kits, now that Quest and Aerotech are both part of RCS, but that wasn't always the case.
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Quest did sell that stoopyd off-sized 20mm D5 for a while but their E12 and F15 were pure vaporware in the commercial market.
What i said then I'll say again now...we have a need for PORT/CORE burning E and F BP SU motors like the old Mini-MAX Centuri offerings. End-burners...meh.
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