Start Date
26-4-1989 3:00 PM
Description
The Pegasus Air-Launched Space Booster is an innovative new space launch vehicle now under full-scale development in a privately-funded joint venture by OSC and .Hercules Aerospace Company. Pegasus is a three-stage, solid-propellant, inertially-guided, all-composite winged vehicle that is launched at an altitude of 40,000 ft from its carrier aircraft. The 41,000 Ib vehicle can deliver payloads as massive as 900 Ib to low earth orbit.
This status report on the Pegasus development program first details the 'advantages of the airborne launch concept, then describes the design and performance of the Pegasus vehicle, and concludes with a review of the progress of the program from its conception in April 1987 through January 1989. First launch of Pegasus is scheduled for 31 July 1989 as a launch servipe under contract to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The second DARPA flight is scheduled for 15 September 1989.
Paper Session II-B - The Pegasus Air-Launched Space Booster
The Pegasus Air-Launched Space Booster is an innovative new space launch vehicle now under full-scale development in a privately-funded joint venture by OSC and .Hercules Aerospace Company. Pegasus is a three-stage, solid-propellant, inertially-guided, all-composite winged vehicle that is launched at an altitude of 40,000 ft from its carrier aircraft. The 41,000 Ib vehicle can deliver payloads as massive as 900 Ib to low earth orbit.
This status report on the Pegasus development program first details the 'advantages of the airborne launch concept, then describes the design and performance of the Pegasus vehicle, and concludes with a review of the progress of the program from its conception in April 1987 through January 1989. First launch of Pegasus is scheduled for 31 July 1989 as a launch servipe under contract to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The second DARPA flight is scheduled for 15 September 1989.
Comments
Commercial Space Transportation
Session Chairman: Norman C. Bowles, Associate Director for Licensing Programs, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Department of Transportation (DOT), Washington, D.C.
Session Organizer: Jerry Vick, Space Station Support Office, Payload Management and Operations Directorate, NASA KSC