Centaur reaches fifty

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Oct 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978spfl...20..333w&link_type=abstract

Spaceflight, vol. 20, Sept.-Oct. 1978, p. 333-337.

Computer Science

Atlas Centaur Launch Vehicle, Centaur Project, Launch Vehicle Configurations, Space Missions, Spacecraft Launching, Advent Project, Atlas Slv-3 Launch Vehicle, Ats, Intelsat Satellites, Liquid Hydrogen, Liquid Oxygen, Mariner Program, Surveyor Project, Tables (Data)

Scientific paper

Plans for NASA's high-energy stage Centaur were first conceived in connection with requirements for an LO2/LH2 upper stage for launching Advent, an active comsat, into a geostationary orbit. A contract for the development of a vehicle capable of long coast periods and with restartable engines was awarded to American aerospace companies in November 1958. The project was handed over to NASA on July 1, 1959. Using the Atlas as booster dictated a Centaur diameter of 10 ft. The first twelve flights used modified Atlas D's redesignated LV-3C, as first stage. The 13th flight employed the first standardized Atlas intended for the Centaur, the SLV-3C. This was eventually used for 17 missions, the last being the launch of OAO 3 in 1972. When the Centaur D was modified to the D-1A form, the Atlas was simplified by deleting the autopilot, programmer and telemetry units. This was designated the SLV-3D and is the version currently in use. The use of the Centaur upper stage with Titan first stages is also discussed.

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