Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room A
Start Date
30-4-1997 1:00 PM
Description
The dramatic growth in demand for world-wide communication has driven the requirement for lower cost, higher reliability launch services to drastically increase over the past decade. This need has developed due to the advent of commercial communication satellites and cellular communications. This loss created a void in launch services that has been filled since 1987 by the introduction of commercial launches on Atlas, Delta, Long March, H-1 and H-2, Titan, Proton, and Zenit.
The introduction of numerous launch vehicles has created an extremely competitive marketplace, and the explosion of the commercial market places ever increasing demand on the launch vehicle manufacturers to continually increase vehicle capability while maintaining or decreasing the cost of payloads to orbit. To satisfy this requirement, McDonnell Douglas has built on the reliability and cost effectiveness started in the 1950’s on Thor and the enhanced and improved performance of Delta and Delta II to develop the new Delta III system. Delta III offers increased performance and affordability, more efficient operations, and a true responsiveness to the requirements expressed by commercial launch customers.
Paper Session II-A - Delta III Reaches Out to the Commercial Market
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room A
The dramatic growth in demand for world-wide communication has driven the requirement for lower cost, higher reliability launch services to drastically increase over the past decade. This need has developed due to the advent of commercial communication satellites and cellular communications. This loss created a void in launch services that has been filled since 1987 by the introduction of commercial launches on Atlas, Delta, Long March, H-1 and H-2, Titan, Proton, and Zenit.
The introduction of numerous launch vehicles has created an extremely competitive marketplace, and the explosion of the commercial market places ever increasing demand on the launch vehicle manufacturers to continually increase vehicle capability while maintaining or decreasing the cost of payloads to orbit. To satisfy this requirement, McDonnell Douglas has built on the reliability and cost effectiveness started in the 1950’s on Thor and the enhanced and improved performance of Delta and Delta II to develop the new Delta III system. Delta III offers increased performance and affordability, more efficient operations, and a true responsiveness to the requirements expressed by commercial launch customers.
