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Originally we had not looked for the CSXT booster. We recovered the nose
cone which had the computers and everyone's memorabilia. But the booster's
radio signal was lost - it was initially presumed to be hiding in a small
hole in the ground somewhere in the mountains where no one would ever find it.
But Stratofox's Jeremy Cooper made a high-quality audio recording of the
whole event. When CSXT's Jerry Larson analyzed the audio, he found it to
be of really good quality. He could tell from the recording of the re-entry
sonic booms that
the booster's parachute was deployed when it went subsonic.
With that remarkable info from the audio, suddenly the search was back on.
Stratofox waited for CSXT members to get their airline tickets and join us.
These photos are from the August 14-15, 2004 search.
We didn't find it. But it turned out to be useful anyway. We were so close.
When BLM later contacted us in November because they had seen it from a
helicopter during a survey of wild horses, we knew how to get there because
we had been in the right area on this search.
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