Talk:SCORE (satellite)

message: Greetings.  Why does this page need expert attention?  It looks reasonable to me, I am an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. Charles 03:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at Chapman's 1961 book about the Atlas rocket.  As early as 1955, Convair engineers calculated that the Atlas could go into orbit.  The decision to actually do it came during meetings between Dempsey (project head) and Roy Johnson at DARPA.  Convair engineers simply removed the radio tracking transponder, and during the countdown, the launch supervisor told the staff to ignore the Azusa no-signal and proceed with the launch.  That arroused suspicion, but seconds before launch, who cared.  It would make no sense to create an expensive false tracking signal just to keep the mission secret for an extra few minutes. DonPMitchell (talk) 06:57, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The following sentence is not supported by the cited source: "His announcement pointedly described that although SCORE was a peaceful mission, the U.S. now had the capability of delivering a nuclear weapon from space." The source says his statement sparked debate about nuclear launch capability, not that he himself "pointedly described" such capability.--Cam (talk) 23:00, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Two years later, and now the link is dead. The statement is unsupported and should be deleted.70.192.8.189 (talk) 21:05, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Now deleted.2600:1000:B111:E5EE:C9DA:1B4F:D9FE:C0D1 (talk) 08:11, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Eisenhower's remarks to Polish delegation

message: This term for the SCORE satellite was popular at the time. It should be mentioned in the article. Here's a NASA-published reference that refers to "PROJECT SCORE or the 'talking atlas' ": http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89045768215;view=1up;seq=121 70.192.8.189 (talk) 21:08, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Now mentioned in the opening paragraph.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1000:B111:E5EE:C9DA:1B4F:D9FE:C0D1 (talk) 08:12, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Talking Atlas 

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message: The "launch weight" is given as 3980 kg, whereas the "on-orbit package" is given as 3969 kg. Maybe I'm missing something. But Atlas B rockets had a "jettisonable rocket booster section" (SM-65B Atlas) If so, I would expect a larger difference between the launch weight and the on-orbit package. So there may be an inconsistency. Can someone who knows the details please reply? Maybe the definitions of "launch weight" and "on-orbit package"? Oaklandguy (talk) 01:01, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible inconsistency; booster engines? 

message: This article is quite close to a B. It needs one more section, essentially supporting the assertion that Project Score brought the US to rough parity with the Soviets (such parity lasting a few days until Lunik 1...)
Newspapers and AvWeekly probably will be useful sources for this. --Neopeius (talk) 21:12, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polishing up