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)


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    Title :

    Atlas Space Booster Flight Test Plan for Booster No. 179D, Atlas-Agena B-Mariner R-Program AT AMR


    Publication date :

    1962


    Size :

    87 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English