Start Date
4-1981 8:00 AM
Description
Augmented performance is necessary to assure that the full Space Shuttle payload deployment capability of 32,000 Ibs can be achieved for the 98° inclination, 150 nautical mile circular mission launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The performance-augmented Space Shuttle meets all design mission requirements, and offers potential payload growth to accommodate new payloads and new concepts. Consequently, it is important to the future national space capability that performance augmentation be developed and made available to meet payload requirements which exploit the capability of the Space Shuttle.
This paper presents the options under consideration which include uprating the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) to the range of 115 percent of rated power level for nominal operations, Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) filamentwound case segments, and the Liquid Boost Module (LBM). These candidates will be studied in detail for the remainder of FY81 and FY82. Selection and initiation of development in FY83 will support the early 1987 need date.
Planning for Performance Augmentation of Space Shuttle
Augmented performance is necessary to assure that the full Space Shuttle payload deployment capability of 32,000 Ibs can be achieved for the 98° inclination, 150 nautical mile circular mission launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The performance-augmented Space Shuttle meets all design mission requirements, and offers potential payload growth to accommodate new payloads and new concepts. Consequently, it is important to the future national space capability that performance augmentation be developed and made available to meet payload requirements which exploit the capability of the Space Shuttle.
This paper presents the options under consideration which include uprating the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) to the range of 115 percent of rated power level for nominal operations, Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) filamentwound case segments, and the Liquid Boost Module (LBM). These candidates will be studied in detail for the remainder of FY81 and FY82. Selection and initiation of development in FY83 will support the early 1987 need date.
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