Assessment of candidate-expendable launch vehicles for large payloads

Details Assessment of candidate-expendable launch vehicles for large payloads Assessment of candidate-expendable launch vehicles for large payloads

Sep 1984

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Final Report National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC.

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Atlas Centaur Launch Vehicle, Payloads, Shuttle Derived Vehicles, Titan Centaur Launch Vehicle, Cost Reduction, Design Analysis, Evaluation

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In recent years the U.S. Air Force and NASA conducted design studies of 3 expendable launch vehicle configurations that could serve as a backup to the space shuttle--the Titan 34D7/Centaur, the Atlas II/Centaur, and the shuttle-derived SRB-X--as well as studies of advanced shuttle-derived launch vehicles with much larger payload capabilities than the shuttle. The 3 candidate complementary launch vehicles are judged to be roughly equivalent in cost, development time, reliability, and payload-to-orbit performance. Advanced shuttle-derived vehicles are considered viable candidates to meet future heavy lift launch requirements; however, they do not appear likely to result in significant reduction in cost-per-pound to orbit.

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