First operational mission assigned to vehicle was NASA's Surveyor program, concerned with softlanding spacecraft on lunar surface; Atlas/Centaur is 2- and 2 1/2-stage liquid propellant launch vehicle; Atlas which is lower stage and 1/2 uses liquid oxygen and RP-1 as propellants; Centaur upper stage uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen; description of configuration and checkout; design features and their impact on handling, checkout, and launch operation; unified Test Plan ensures comprehensive analysis of performance of every element of system; data management system is also described. (16708)
Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle operation experience
SAE Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1968 Launching
1968
16 pages
Conference paper
English
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