WESTAR-V launch on delta
Abstract
The WESTAR-V, the second in a series of second-generation, large, 24-transponder communications satellites developed for the Space Communications Company is discussed. It is scheduled to be launched on a Delta vehicle from the Eastern Space and Missile Center no earlier than June 8, 1982. The launch support for this mission will be provided by NASA, on a reimbursable basis, to the Space Communications Company for a fixed price of $25.OM. The launch vehicle for the WESTAR-V 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 PAM-D stage will then thrust it to a synchronous transfer orbit. Three days after launch, the spacecraft apogee kick motor will be fired to circularize its orbit at geosynchronous altitude of 19,300 NM above the equator at approxmately 75 degrees west longitude.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- January 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982STIN...8225279.
- Keywords:
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- Delta Launch Vehicle;
- Prelaunch Summaries;
- Spacecraft Launching;
- Westar Satellites;
- Data Processing;
- Geosynchronous Orbits;
- Launch Dates;
- Launch Vehicle Configurations;
- Pulse Frequency Modulation Telemetry;
- Safety;
- Strapdown Inertial Guidance;
- Transfer Orbits;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles