| Title: | Space Exploration |
| Notice: | Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6 |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 974 |
| Total number of notes: | 18843 |
TASS announced that a US fir will lease the Soviet Mobile Rocket
launche to orbit satellites. The unit is based on the SS-20
director general Yuri Solomonov told Tass...The World does not yet have
mobile launchers for orbitting small payloads but the need for such
systems is great, in the US alone the requirment is estimated at
20 to 30 such launches a year...
The unit is being developed on the technology of producing the missiles
known in the west as SS-20s. Their high reliability was graphically
demonstrated in 1988 when such missiles were destroyed in the presence
of American inspectors by being launch to be smashed on impact with the
ground at the end of the flight. Seventy-two such launch were carried
out and they all wen impecchably.
jb
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| 562.1 | STAR::HUGHES | Tue Sep 05 1989 15:00 | 16 | ||
AvLeak was talking about this a while back when it was in a proposal stage. The idea is to use existing SS-20 production facilities to build a small, mobile launcher. It will be based on SS-20 technology but will not be a standard SS-20 with a different guidance system (i.e. it will not be possible to turn them back into missiles). By using these facilities, they believe that can offer very cheap launch services for small satellites. The US firm that is involved (I forget the name; the same folks that are promoting Glavkosmos services) want to conduct a series of about 10 test launches. Some of these would take place in the US and possibly one from Cape York (Australia) as 'proof of concept'. They are going after the same 'lightsat' market as the Pegasus project. gary | |||||