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... agency responsible for its own missions. NASA would exercise launch vehicle control over all WTR Delta launches. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and USAF Space Systems Division would be responsible for carrying out the agreement. NASA would be responsible for developing an improved Delta launch vehicle to meet both agencies' mission requirements for use at both WTR and ETR ...

... instead of the standard 9 Castor Its. (First to use the larger rockets was the Delta that launched Satcom 1 on 12 Dec. 75.) RCA had underwritten development expenses of adapting the NASA "workhorse" Delta to use the larger rockets, in a unique NASA-customer-launch vehicle contractor arrangement that ... for a vehicle equipped with the Castor IIs. NASA was thinking of the more powerful Delta as a standard launch vehicle for other customers who could use the increase in permissible ...

... night cloud-cover observations by both direct readout and onboard storage. Flight appeared normal through Delta first burn. At start of It period (approximately one hour coast), pitch and yaw altitude ... . At that time, unknown force caused vehicle to tumble. Planned vehicle functions remaining, including second Delta burn and spacecraft separation, occurred approximately on time. Planned circular orbit was not achieved and ...

... of a $64 620 000, fixed-price-incentive contract to McDonnell Douglas Corp. for Thor-Delta launch vehicle mission checkout, launchings, engineering support, and modifications through 30 Sept. 1975 was announced by NASA. Additional contract options totaled about $2 500 000. ''(NASA Release 74-84; Off Delta Mgr, interview)'' The Senate Committee on Government Operations' Subcommittee on Reorganization, Research, and International Organizations ...

... radio communications satellite-from Western Test Range at 9:11 am PST on one Thor-Delta launch vehicle. The three spacecraft entered almost identical, near-to-planned, polar orbits. It was ... provide global cloud-cover observations. Delayed 29 Oct. by faulty electrical connectors on the Thor-Delta and again 13 Nov. when a 2nd-stage hydraulic pump posed a problem, the launch ... mission was adjudged successful 24 Jan. 1976. Intasat, the first Spanish satellite, separated from the Delta 2nd stage 24 min after launch and entered orbit with a 1468-km apogee and ...

... recover launch vehicle and payload wreckage from the "unprecedented" back-to-back explosions of a Delta and an Atlas Centaur carrying an OTS and an INTELSAT spacecraft. In "the most comprehensive ... location. USAF ordnance disposal personnel often had to penetrate thick, snake-infested vegetation to reach Delta and Atlas Centaur fragments. Personnel from Port Everglades and the Navy's harbor-clearance unit ...

... stewardship, Complex 17 would continue to be used to launch Delta medium class vehicles. The Air Force had procured 20 new Delta II s for Department of Defense payloads. The first launch was scheduled for later in 1988. In addition, at least eight commercial Delta IIs would be launched by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, Huntington, Beach, California, from Complex 17 ...

... Daniel S. Goldin and U. S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) recognized "members of the Delta launch team who were instrumental in sending NASA spacecraft to Mars," awarding Jay L. Witzling, Vice President of Delta Programs, with NASA's Public Service Medal. Other critical leaders in the program also received ...

... communications satellite was the first U.S. Air Force craft launched atop Boeing 's newest Delta rocket, as well as the first mission for the U.S. Air Force's Evolved ... the U.S. military. The launch of the Discus satellite featured the smallest of the Delta 4's several possible configurations, with two stages and no booster rocket. (Spacewarn Bulletin, no ... April 2003, http://nssdc.GSFC.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spx593.html (accessed 28 August 2008); Reuters, “Delta 4 Sends Up Its First U.S. Air Force Satellite,” 10 March 2003. February 2003 ...

... NASA would switch many of its satellite programs from the Delta launch vehicle to the Thrust-Augmented Delta (TAD). TAD would use the Delta second stage with the USAF-developed Thrust Aug­mented ... a 300-mi. orbit. Many NASA programs had been pushing the payload limit of the Delta. Those benefiting from the new booster were reported to be Syncom, the Bios satel­lites ...

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