The task of renovating and modifying the THOR booster to a Research and Development Space Booster was accomplished more quickly and at a lower cost than procuring a new space booster. The major considerations were that changes and cost would be held to an absolute minimum. However, analysis of the required configuration showed that the entire vehicle and also several of its subsystems might see environments of temperature, shock, vibration and sustained acceleration more severe than had been encountered on previous THOR flight. A discussion is presented of the analysis techniques utilized to assure that optimum Vehicle Flight Readiness would be achieved.


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    Title :

    Reliability Techniques Utilized in Converting the Thor Tactical System to a Research and Development Space Booster


    Contributors:
    M. A. Newby (author) / E. P. Mahr (author)

    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    15 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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