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Scientific paper
Mar 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icss.confr....h&link_type=abstract
AIAA, International Communication Satellite Systems Conference and Exhibit, 14th, Washington, DC, Mar. 22-26, 1992. 10 p.
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Atlas Launch Vehicles, Launching Bases, Satellite Orbits, Spacecraft Launching, Communication Satellites, Lunar Communication, Mission Planning, Payload Integration, Satellite Networks
Scientific paper
Atlas, with the Centaur upper stage, is well known for launching geosynchronous communications satellites. Atlas, however, also has excellent capabilities for launches to other, nongeosynchronous orbits which can be useful for communications. In 1958, an Atlas launched Score, the first spacecraft to be used for communications, into a nongeosynchronous orbit. In the 1990s, single launches of Atlas vehicles will be able to deliver many small spacecraft at a time to deploy constellations of communications satellites in low earth orbits. Atlas vehicles are also well suited to launch specialized spacecraft into escape trajectories for communication between earth and the moon, Mars, and other planetary bodies. Payload weight capabilities of the Atlas family cover the range necessary for the wide variety of nongeosynchronous communications satellite systems being considered. This robust range of capabilities provides enough margin to accommodate potential spacecraft weight growth during development. Atlas capabilities, developed through 33 years of communications satellite launch experience, are readily adaptable to meet the needs of the new market for communications satellites in nongeosynchronous orbits.
Henley M.
Huynh C.
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