This report describes the test plan for the second Atlas booster vehicle to be utilized in the flight operation of the Mariner R-Agena B program at AMR. The primary purpose of the second Mariner R flight is a Venus fly-by of an instrument package launched with the composite Atlas-Agena B-Mariner R/Spacecraft vehicle system, and secondary, to obtain scientific data on space media. The planned Atlas portion of this launch is an ascent trajectory to boost the upper stages to a condition where a final satellite orbit can be obtained and made to intersect the orbit of Venus at the time Venus is near the point of intersection; hence a near miss or fly-by. The mission of Atlas booster 179D is to boost the combined Agena B-Mariner R vehicle to a predetermined velocity and position in space so that after separation the Agena B-Mariner R vehicle can boost the spacecraft into its final orbit. (Author)
Atlas Space Booster Flight Test Plan for Booster No. 179D, Atlas-Agena B-Mariner R-Program AT AMR
1962
87 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Launch vehicles , Checkout procedures , Launching sites , Ascent trajectories , Venus probes , Systems engineering , Ground support equipment , Operational readiness , Telemeter systems , Instrumentation , Liquid propellant rocket engines , Inertial guidance , Agena , Atlas launch vehicles , Mariner
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