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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 05:04:12
From: Space Digest maintainer <digests@isu.isunet.edu>
Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu
Subject: Space Digest V15 #150
To: Space Digest Readers
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Space Digest Sat, 29 Aug 92 Volume 15 : Issue 150
Today's Topics:
Another Shuttle Tank Reuse Idea, From NASA
Interplanetary launch capability of the Delta II?
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Date: 29 Aug 92 05:01:50 GMT
From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Subject: Another Shuttle Tank Reuse Idea, From NASA
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <15292@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>...hydrogen tank inside would be removed, leaving the oxygen tank and
>intertank structures, to which would be added living quarters,
>instrumentation, an airlock, and small thrusters and fuel tanks...
Small correction... I doubt it really said that... because there is
no hydrogen tank "inside". There is one, 1, 00001, layer of metal
between the liquid hydrogen and the outside world. (There is some
spray-on insulation on the outside of the metal.) The tank wall
and the outer shell are one and the same. If you cut away the
hydrogen tank, you're cutting away roughly the lower two-thirds
of the ET. Still might be a sensible idea, although it seems a
shame to throw away most of the internal volume (the oxygen tank
is much smaller).
--
There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Date: 29 Aug 92 12:14:34 GMT
From: Ron Baalke <baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Interplanetary launch capability of the Delta II?
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <rabjab.47.0@golem.ucsd.edu>, rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes...
>What would be a good formula be to compute payload to Earth escape+Vinf
>using a Delta II launch vehicle? I believe the vehicle can put 11 Klb
>in a 100 nm reference orbit. (The Delta I can put up 5.5 Klb)
>
>What would a typical solid fuel upper stage weigh? Given the delta-V
>a solid upper stage could give me, how could I then compute the payload
>capacity left after burnout? My objective is to design a Venus orbiter,
>launching with no bigger than a Delta II. Has anything interplanetary ever
>been launched with a Delta II before?
>
None of the planetary missions in the past have used the Delta II as a
launch vehicle, but the MESUR mission is planning to use it. Here are
some quick numbers for the Delta II launch capability:
Launch Energy, C3 Payload Mass
(km^2/sec^2) (kg)
------------------ -------------
10 1000
20 850
30 650
40 550
In MESUR's case, it has been determined that a launch energy of 17 is
required for Mars. Four spacecraft are being sent on a single Delta II.
Current estimates say that each spacecraft will weigh 145.6 kg and the
launch adapter mass weighs 40 kg, so the total payload mass is 622.4 kg.
At C3=17, Delta II can send a payload of 922kg, leaving a 300 kg margin.
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End of Space Digest Volume 15 : Issue 150
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