Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/Discovery Rooms
Start Date
21-4-1992 2:00 PM
Description
In order to sustain our quest for new frontiers, we must first appreciate how we attained our present accomplishments. We are transitioning from the research and development phase into the operational phase of accessing space. Three decades ago we struggled with the idea of placing a basketball sized satellite into space and today the Titan IV system is installing school bus size payloads in Earth orbit and beyond. The scope of this paper is to briefly describe the Titan IV system, including the flight hardware, facilities and ground equipment, and explain how this system is improving at the Eastern Launch Site (ELS) to assure reliable, cost effective access to space for the Department of Defense (DoD) larger payloads.
Paper Session I-A - Titan IV Integrate. Test and Launch Facility System Improvements
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/Discovery Rooms
In order to sustain our quest for new frontiers, we must first appreciate how we attained our present accomplishments. We are transitioning from the research and development phase into the operational phase of accessing space. Three decades ago we struggled with the idea of placing a basketball sized satellite into space and today the Titan IV system is installing school bus size payloads in Earth orbit and beyond. The scope of this paper is to briefly describe the Titan IV system, including the flight hardware, facilities and ground equipment, and explain how this system is improving at the Eastern Launch Site (ELS) to assure reliable, cost effective access to space for the Department of Defense (DoD) larger payloads.
