RELIABILITY TECHNIQUES UTILIZED IN CONVERTING THE THOR TACTICAL SYSTEM TO A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SPACE BOOSTER,

Abstract

The task of renovating and modifying the THOR booster to a Research and Development Space Booster was accomplished more quickly and at a lower cost than procuring a new space booster. The major considerations were that changes and cost would be held to an absolute minimum. However, analysis of the required configuration showed that the entire vehicle and also several of its subsystems might see environments of temperature, shock, vibration and sustained acceleration more severe than had been encountered on previous THOR flight. A discussion is presented of the analysis techniques utilized to assure that optimum Vehicle Flight Readiness would be achieved.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0800024

Entities

People

  • Erwin P. Mahr
  • Marvin A. Newby

Organizations

  • Douglas

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Environment
  • Mechanical Waves
  • Motion
  • Reliability
  • Vibration

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Technology Areas

  • Space