The development of a complementary expendable launch vehicle interface for an STS deployable payload
Abstract
The development is described of an interface, the Titan Payload Adapter (TPA), between a Space Transportation System (STS) deployable payload and an expendable launch vehicle (ELV). Separate ascent and separation constraint systems allow a payload with integral trunnions to retain its originally designed, boost-phase load structure, yet also allow the expendable booster vehicle to separate from the payload via retro-rockets. Design requirements as well as development problems and their solutions are discussed.
- Publication:
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24th Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium
- Pub Date:
- April 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990aeme.symp...89E
- Keywords:
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- Expendable Stages (Spacecraft);
- Launch Vehicles;
- Payload Integration;
- Shafts (Machine Elements);
- Stage Separation;
- Adapters;
- Connectors;
- Deployment;
- Interfaces;
- Loads (Forces);
- Space Transportation System;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles