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In article <C0ILM5.L2o.1@cs.cmu.edu>, MILLS@ASTRO.dnet.ge.com (Bob Mills 609-490-3211) writes...
>soc1070@CRABAPPLE.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (Tim Harincar) writes
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>>What about the big RCA logo on the Delta rockets (as seen in "the
>>Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology")? I hope RCA had to pay
>>for that.
>>
>I'm not 100% sure, but I think it worked something like this:
>1.  Customer (RCA Americom) contracts with satellite vendor 
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In addition to the reasons already mentioned, in the case of the Delta 3920,
RCA funded a significant part of the development costs of the launch vehicle as
well. They needed something to launch their second generation Satcoms (aka
Advance Satcom family) and the shuttle schedule was too late. The 3920 design
goal was to carry an Advanced Satcom and it's associated PAM-D.

For those launches, they were entitled to a giant logo :-)

In general, the Delta often had the logo of the client organization along with
the triangular Delta logo (sometimes the Delta logo had a mission logo merged
into it) as far back as Aerial-1 (UK satellite). Some of the SDIO missions
(Delta Star, Delta Stake) have had interesting logos.

gary