Space Shuttle Standard Launch Window

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

DeAtkine, David D., author.

Conference Name:

SAE Aerospace Technology Conference and Exposition (1986-10-13 : Long Beach, California, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1986

Summary:

To maximize the efficiency of the Space Transportation System as a shared cargo launch system and to enhance the mixability and launch opportunities for payloads carried on the Space Shuttle, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed a shared cargo standard launch window. The launch window is based on the transfer orbit Sun angle requirements of an established, common class of geosynchronous communications satellites. This standard window is applicable to mixed cargoes launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center into 28.5° inclination orbits. The window consists of two time periods, each 2-hr long and centered at 0023 and 1223 Greenwich mean time, and extends unchanged throughout the year

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Publisher Number:

861649

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license