Preliminary Centaur systems analysis
Abstract
The Centaur is stored in the Orbiter payload bay on the Centaur Integrated Support System (CISS). The CISS not only cradles the Centaur prior to deployment but also provides any signal conditioning required to make the Centaur/Orbiter hardwire interfaces compatible. In addition, the CISS provides other Centaur functions such as controlling all the avionics safety features and providing all the helium supplies for tank pressurizations. Problems associated with a Centaur design concept using a transponder and two switchable antennas are defined. Solutions to these problems are presented.
- Publication:
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Final Report Axiomatix
- Pub Date:
- December 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981axio.rept.....M
- Keywords:
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- Centaur Launch Vehicle;
- Radio Antennas;
- Space Shuttle Upper Stages;
- Spacecraft Antennas;
- Transponders;
- Cathode Ray Tubes;
- Rolling Moments;
- Surges;
- Switching Circuits;
- Systems Analysis;
- Telemetry;
- Communications and Radar