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... configurations; and choice of thrust assist for orbiter shuttle was still open, with pressure-fed boosters and solid-fuel rocket motors, either using parallel burn, as main economic alternatives. Third economic choice was use of series-burn boosters. ''(Text)'' NASA launched two sounding rockets from Wallops Station in support of winter anomaly program ...

... ) Category:Almanac Audio The Air Force launched an unidentified reconnaissance satellite on an Atlas-Agena booster from Eastern Test Range at 4:30 am EST. Orbital parameters: 36 679-km (22 ... and tested. We expect that this location will be identified when the solid fueled rocket booster contract is awarded this November." Philip E. Culbertson, Director of Mission and Payload Integration in ...

... hydrogen-oxygen tanks and an acceptable recoverable and refurbishment cost of the solid-fueled rocket boosters. Space tug development was "of key im­portance to gaining full utility of the space ... design for the shuttle ground test program, the early and initial phase of Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) production and test facilities," and the pads and mobile launchers at the Kennedy Space ... seven satellites but the remainder had been spent on an expensive and yet unsuccessful booster. Interest in the booster had dissipated despite the French desire to con­tinue and the offer to ...

... next 2yr. ( LaRC Release 77-4) MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC announced that United Space Boosters , Inc., the firm that would assemble and check out the solid-fuel rocket for the ... tools for applying thermal-protection materials to the boosters, electrical and instrument-verification testing, and installing instrumentation on the booster structure and on the booster aft skirt for tests scheduled at MARSHALL SPACE ...

... test of a parachute system designed to recover the Shuttle's reusable solid-fuel rocket boosters. Royce Mitchell of MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC said the test article, a 48 000lb (21 773kg) dummy booster carried under the wing of a B-52 aircraft, would encounter 30% more dynamic pressure ... deploy at a speed of about 420mph (676kph) 20sec after the plane released the dummy booster at an estimated speed of 230mph (370kph) and an altitude of about 19 400ft (5913m ...

... the support vessels and how they kept position while the plug was docking with the booster. Everette said retrieval gear would be modified according to the test results. More ocean tests ... , operator of the support vessel; Everglades Towing Co.; the Naval Ocean Systems Center; U.S. Booster, Inc.; Battelle Memorial Institute; Pioneer Parachute Co.; the U.S. Navy supervisor of salvage; and ...

... -07-21.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF) After 2 decades as key booster in NASA's space program, the Atlas Centaur would remain "old reliable" for a variety ... USAF Titan booster. General Dynamics had built an improved Centaur adaptable to both the Atlas and the Titan boosters; Martin Marietta had conducted studies for NASA on integrating the Titan booster with an ...

... Shuttle , the USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO) was modifying a Titan III 34D booster to ensure prime and backup launch capabilities during Space Shuttle transition. The 34D was a ... in 1980, the 34D/IUS combination would be contingency booster for top-priority defense payloads. Plans called for development of seven 34D boosters to be used first for launching two defense satellite ...

... ocean surface of any of the six maim chutes or either of the boosters, which cost $24 million each. Boosters from earlier launches were towed to KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC for refit ... . NASA said that it would name a board to review "in excruciating detail" how the boosters could sink in 3,500 feet of water although the drogue parachutes were found floating ...

... with advanced lightweight, solid-fuel rocket boosters that would replace the boosters then in use on the Space Shuttle , Ames Research Center (ARC) announced. The new boosters would be first used during a ... . For the tests, researchers used a vehicle a third the size of a solid-fuel booster with one main parachute and, to simulate a splashdown, drop tested it from the Ames ...

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