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... operational silo was "100 percent successful with all research and development objectives achieved" and that Minuteman II performed with "accuracy and reliability," impacting more than 5,000 mi, downrange from the launch site at Vandenberg AFB . ''( AFSC Release)'' USAF was considering using obsolete Boeing Minuteman missiles as space launch vehicles with the United Technology Center FW-4s solid-propellant motor ...

... )'' DOD officials were concerned about serious mechanical problems that had undermined the readiness" of the Minuteman II ICBM, William Beecher reported in the New York Times. "As recently as this spring ... missiles-about 40 per cent of all the advanced Minuteman 2 missiles and 10 per cent of the entire 1,000-missile Minuteman force-were out of action because of trouble with ... will always group up in any complex electronics system and can be corrected, cite the Minuteman 2 trouble in questioning the wisdom of the near total reliance that Mr. McNamara places ...

... a predetermined target. The overall performance of Minuteman II when fired from alert status has been outstanding by any standard. . . . "Therefore, while the Minuteman II guidance and control system is proving to require more maintenance than predicted earlier, the alert Minuteman II missile force is indeed reliable. . . .' ''(DOD ...

... the pads and that. Then Polaris arrived, which added a scene to it, and then Minuteman arrived, when had another scenario to it. Then Titan II started arriving, and so I ... got today with your vehicles. The capability of those two is about equal to a Minuteman. So I visioned these things and now they're there. '''Wright:''' Knowing that they would ... course, I always say, you never knew what was going to happen. They had a Minuteman took off and turned late over like that and flew straight towards Savannah, Georgia. So ...

... form of weapon for Soviet aircraft, replacing bombs. ''(Av. Wk., 1/7/63,25)'' USAF Minuteman ICBM fell short of its planned range flight from Cape Canaveral , and USAF was conducting study to determine cause of the advanced Minuteman's malfunction. This was second flight of new, more powerful Minuteman model. ''(DOD Release 25-63 ; AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 1 ...

... the use of surplus Wing 1 Minuteman ICBMs as Guidance Error Analysis Vehicles (Geav). According to Air Force Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility (CIGTF) surplus Minuteman boosters could be the cheapest means ... no other range could measure missile velocity in three axes to the required accuracy. The Minuteman guidance system itself would be reprogramed and located in a recoverable payload for reasons of ...

... be completed by May, would determine feasibility of flight-test program in which two converted Minuteman boosters would launch instrumented payloads into circular orbits from Eastern Test Range ETR . Preliminary studies had already shown that converted Minuteman booster could place large payloads into 575-mi circular orbit, or smaller payloads into an ...

... observations of 13 different satellites. ‘‘(Sci. Serv., NYT, 1/22/66)’’ Advanced Minuteman ICBM was launched from a modernized Minuteman I silo at Vandenberg AFB as part of a series of tests to verify modernization procedures for upgrading of Minuteman I silos and control centers. ‘‘(UPI, NYT, 1/23/66,57). January 1966 January Jan ...

... - Bell In Space - NASA Milestones - The Terror Patrol By Journalist L/C Russell D. Egnor - Minuteman Executive - Space Debris By Harold R. Williams - Avscom: For An Airborne Army - Aerospace Reports - Future ... Heinz Fornoff - Communications "First" Scored By Bell Antenna - R&D Perspective By Grant L. Hansen - Minuteman The Dynamic Deterrent - Technical Forum - Stretching The Propulsion Payoff - Bell Realigns Top Management - Voyageur - Summer ...

... 's at rate of one a day during rest of 1963. Announcement came as 100th Minuteman site was turned over to SAC at Malmstrom AFB, Mont. ''(DOD Re­lease 612-63)'' USAF fired Minuteman ICBM from underground silo at Vandenberg AFB "with complete success," fourth successful firing of Minute ...

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