The Aerial Radiological Measuring System (ARMS) participated during August 1971 in Project HAVE SINEW-1 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. This project involved the flight of an Air Force Athena rocket carrying payloads which fell on the White Sands Range. The six payload packages contained a total of nine radioactive gamma sources as aids to recovery. The ARMS objective was to locate the sources from the air and to direct recovery crews to the impact sites. By means of the gamma detection equipment on board the ARMS aircraft, seven of the nine sources were quickly located. Of these, five were still attached to intact payload packages as expected; the other two were found detached from third payload. The remaining two sources were not found. It is believed that the payload(s) carrying the mission sources broke up in flight, causing them to fall uprange of the search area. 5 figs.


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