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... At Force Station, Florida. The 6,000 pound payload, the heaviest ever carried by a Delta rocket, consisted of a main orbiting sensor platform and fifteen subsatellites released from the main ... , Hawaii. The experiment was declared a success despite the failure of an infrared sensor. The Delta launch, originally scheduled for February 4, was delayed five days because of an apparent valve malfunction on the Delta. Data gathered by the satellite during the 12-hour exercise would be transmitted to Earth ...

... development and maintenance, and certification of primary flight software. (NASA Release C93-s) The Delta Clipper-Experimental ( DELTA CLIPPER EXPERIMENTAL DC-X ) rocket's first flight was scheduled for August 18 at ... get thrown away on every flight. It would fire its engines to land vertically. The DELTA CLIPPER EXPERIMENTAL DC-X was developed by McDonnell Douglas with funding by the Federal Ballistic ...

... the Iridium World Communications network, aboard a Delta II rocket. The Delta II launched two weeks after the "disastrous maiden flight" of the new Delta III rocket, which had exploded during liftoff. Officials ... had not yet determined the exact chain of events. The five satellites launched aboard the Delta II rocket replaced satellites that had malfunctioned and could not be included in the Iridium ...

... 1999 launch schedule, after having placed its schedule on hold when a Delta III launch failed in early May. Delta's RL10B-2, upper-stage engine was similar to the RL10A-4 ... Centaur upper stage. The Boeing Company and Pratt & Whitney had led the investigation of the Delta III launch failure, with the support of Lockheed Martin . Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin Astronautics had formed ... the Senior Management Review Team had addressed potential causes of launch failure identified in the Delta III investigation, ruling out those factors that did not apply to Atlas F lights. When ...

... disasters in 2011, NPP data is critical for accurate weather forecasts into the future." A Delta II rocket will carry NPP into an orbit 512 miles above Earth's surface. Roughly ... .m. EDT. The launch recently was delayed two days due to the repair of the Delta II's hydraulic system. The NPP spacecraft is scheduled to be transported to the launch pad for attachment to the Delta II on Oct. 12. NPP's Delta II launch vehicle also will carry several auxiliary payloads into orbit, which ...

... two concepts that Faget had: one was for a straight wing vehicle, the other a delta wing concept. He felt there might be some benefits to having short, stubby wings and ... you can think of using an exotic vehicle like the F-102, which was a delta wing fighter developed by General Dynamics, but was obsolete and out of production, we needed ... still had the problem of the lift. On the Shuttle, you had a low lift delta wing, but the Gulfstream was a high lift vehicle. So you had to find a ...

... satellite’s velocity. For this reason, an orbital maneuver is often called a ''delta-V '' (ΔV). The Greek letter “delta”, or ∆, is used in mathematics to indicate a “change.”So ΔV denotes ... stuck in the transfer orbit. Image:FS2018f9.7.jpg thumb right 250px Figure 9.7. Delta-V’s are applied at two different maneuver points in a Hohmann transfer. 9.2 ... ’s envisaged Vega Small Launch Vehicle, and the GEM solid rocket booster for Boeing’s Delta-type of launchers. In these designs composite materials are used for the motor case whose ...

... enter solar orbit, and its secondary payload TETR-C were destroyed shortly after launch when Delta booster malfunctioned. Some 189 meteorological sounding rockets, 85 scientific sounding rockets, and 60 high-altitude ... wide-bodied jumbo jet transports for civil use, including Boeing 747. New SST design with delta wing was approved by FAA and prototype construction was recommended by President Nixon. NASA's ...

... USAF would be added to the National Launch Vehicle program as booster for Agena and Delta vehicles, DOD and NASA announced. TAT would have three XM-33 solid-propellant rockets, each ... 20 to 30% in­crease in capability over the Delta , putting 1,000 lbs. into earth orbit compared with 800 lbs. for Delta . ''(DOD Release 1434-63)'' Dr. Edward C. Welsh , Executive ...

... )'' NASA announced purchase from Douglas Aircraft Co. of eight more Delta launch vehicles, some of which would be the Thrust-Augmented Delta (TAD) capable of placing 1,000-lb. payload into low earth orbit as compared to 800 lbs. for standard Delta. ''(NASA Release 64-46)'' A. O. Tischler, NASA. Director of Chemical Propulsion, Office of Advanced ...

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