INSAT-1A is the first in a series of 12-transponder communications satellites developed by the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation for the India Department of Space (DOS). It is scheduled to be launched from the Eastern Space and Missile Center (ESMC) no earlier than April 8, 1982. The launch support for this mission will be provided by NASA, on a reimbursable basis, to the DOS for a fixed price of $25.0M. The launch vehicle for the INSAT-1A mission will be the Delta 3910 configuration which incorporates an Extended Long Tank Thor booster, nine Castor IV strap-on motors, a TR-201 second stage, and an 8-foot fairing. The Delta launch vehicle will place the spacecraft along a suborbital trajectory. The McDonnell Douglas commercial PAM-D stage will then thrust it into a synchronous transfer orbit. Five and a half hours after launch, at first apogee, the spacecraft Apogee Kick Motor will be fired to circularize its orbit at geo- synchronous altitude of 19,300 NM above the equator at approximately 74 degrees East Longitude. A second mission (INSAT-1B) is scheduled for launch on the Space Shuttle in July 1983 (Flt No. 8).
INSAT-1A Launch on Delta
1982
17 pages
Report
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English
NTRS | 1982
NTIS | 1982
AIAA | 1982
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