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BACKGROUND INFORMATION......................
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I Scheduled to be launched no sooner than Feb. 16.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION TELS WO -
, WASHINGTON, D C 20546 WO 1-o9
SATURN I TO LAUNCH
PEGASUS METEOROID
DETECTION SATELLITE
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Exposure cf the large panel area over a long period will give
panels.
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pounds thrust, stands 188 feet on the pad and weighs about
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SATURN SA-9 VEH ICLE
COMMAND MODULE
INSTRUMENT UNIT
--- S-IVSTACr
ULLAGE ROCKETS - 188'
-6 RL-10 ENG INES
RETRO ROCKETS - ,___XL______,
S-I STAGE
LIFTOFF WEIGHT:
1,120, 000 LBS.
8 H-1 ENGINES
SATURN SA-9 TRAJECTORY
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surements.
Details follow.
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PEGASUS SATELLITE
Description of Spacecraft
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CENTER SECTION
SERVICE MODULE SOLAR PANELS
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S C MDLE AADAPTOR
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extrusions.
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between the outer aluminum skin and the inner copper coating.
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(1) STC. ED
(2) SEMI-DEPLOYED
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(3) FULLY-DIPYDD
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Electronic Products Division, New York, glass resistors;
Vinson Engineering, Van Nuys, Calif.,, actuator (back-up
for the motor gearbox) Eastern Air Devices, DOver, N.H.,
drive motor. Ion Physics Corp., Burlington, Mass.,
design assurance radiation testing; Washington Video Productions,
Washington, D.C., technical documentation films; Hayes
International Corp., Birmingham, Ala., design assurance
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control instruments.
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The first stage, S-I, is powered by eight Rocketdyne H-1
The S-I is 21.4 feet in diameter and 80.3 feet long and
will weigh nearly a million pounds including 880,000 pounds
of propellant.
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140 seconds.
S-IV STAGE
the sun. U' the surfaces should heat excessively, the heat
could be conducted to the Pegasus and interfere or endanger
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The second stage is basically a two-section tank structure
with an insulated common bulkhead dividing it into a forward
liquid hydrogen tank and an aft liquid oxygen tank. The
common bulkhead minimizes heat losses from the liquid oxygen
(-297 degrees F) to the liquid hydrogen (-423 degrees F).
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The first and second stages of the SA-9 were mated Nov.
down will last about six hours, the second part, 10-1/2hours.
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T- 3 seconds -- Ignition
T- 0 -- Liftoff.
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Pegasus deployment.
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while the
associated with the C-Band radars will be used
beacon
UHF telemetry beacon is active. After the C-Band
tracking
ceases to transmit, the radars will employ "skin"
fifth orbit.
(beam-bouncing) techniques until the end of the
18 month
The STADAN will then track Pegasus for the full
if it orbits
lifetime of the 136-mc telemetry transmitters
that long. (Actually, the payload may orbit three or more
period.)
years, but data is sought for at least a one-year
decline, or-
Upon beginning of reentry or 136-mc transmitter
Goddard's
bital data responsibility will be shifted from
Flight
Data Systems Division (STADAN) to its Manned Space
oul; reentry.
Smith-
Optical tracking coverage will be provided by the
Network
sonian Astrophysical Observatory's Optical Tracking
(Minitrack
(SAO) whenever visibility conditions permit. MOTS
Optical Tracking System) will also be utilized.
mand facilities.
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tracking data.
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Tananarive T Tokyo B
Carnarvon RT Maui B
California RT Arequipa B
Guaymas T
White Sands R
Texas T
Eglin RT
Legend:
R - C-Band Radar
T - UHF Telemetry (225-260 mc)
M - Minitrack Tracking (136 mc)
B - Baker-Nunn Optical Tracking
0 - STADAN Optical Tracking System
N - Pegasus Spacecraft Telemetry
(136 mc)
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