Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room
Start Date
24-4-1990 2:00 PM
End Date
24-4-1990 5:00 PM
Description
The Consortium for Materials Development in Space has initiated two series of suborbital rocket missions to promote goals of the NASA Office of Commercial Programs, The broad objectives of the new missions are twofold: 1) to accomplish materials and biotechnology investigations in microgravity and 2) to stimulate the commercial rocket industry in the United States. The first series, designated the Consort missions, provide six to eight minutes of microgravity. Their launch and recovery operations are performed at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. A Consort 1 flight occurred on March 29,1989. All rocket and payload systems operated successfully. A Consort 2 mission occurred November 15,1989, Consort 3 is scheduled for May 1990. The second series is designated Joust. It will provide 13-15 minutes of microgravity. Joust 1 is schedule for launch in November 1990 from the Eastern Test Range in Florida. The Starfire rocket that launches Consort missions is a two stage vehicle. The Prospector rocket for Joust is a single stage vehicle.
Paper Session I-C - Low Gravity Investigations on Suborbital Rockets
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room
The Consortium for Materials Development in Space has initiated two series of suborbital rocket missions to promote goals of the NASA Office of Commercial Programs, The broad objectives of the new missions are twofold: 1) to accomplish materials and biotechnology investigations in microgravity and 2) to stimulate the commercial rocket industry in the United States. The first series, designated the Consort missions, provide six to eight minutes of microgravity. Their launch and recovery operations are performed at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. A Consort 1 flight occurred on March 29,1989. All rocket and payload systems operated successfully. A Consort 2 mission occurred November 15,1989, Consort 3 is scheduled for May 1990. The second series is designated Joust. It will provide 13-15 minutes of microgravity. Joust 1 is schedule for launch in November 1990 from the Eastern Test Range in Florida. The Starfire rocket that launches Consort missions is a two stage vehicle. The Prospector rocket for Joust is a single stage vehicle.
Comments
Small Microgravity Carriers
Session Chairman: Charles Lundquist, Director, Consortium for Materials Development in Space, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Session Organizer: Dwight Easterly, CSAT, Cocoa Beach, FL