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Space Launch Vehicles

Overview

Military Traffic Models

• Evolving Requirements
• Current Traffic Models
• National Mission Model
• Colloquy on NRO Budget Secrecy, Allen Thomson and John Pike

Current Programs

Small Launch Vehicles
• Scout
• Pegasus
Delta
• Delta
• Delta III and Delta IV
• Delta Facilities
Atlas
• Atlas
• Atlas Facilities
Titan
• Titan
• Titan Facilities
• Titan Costs
• Titan IV Selected Acquisition Report [SAR]
• Titan IV Launch Schedule
• 20 December 1996 Launch Details
Space Shuttle
• Baseline Reference Mission [BRM]
• Military Missions [table]
• Shuttle Thrust Augmentation
• The SLC-6 Saga
Upper Stages
• PAM - Payload Assist Module
• IUS - Intertial Upper Stage
• Centaur

Future Programs

Advanced Launch System
National/New Launch System
Spacelifter

EELV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle

• EELV CONTRACT AWARD December 20, 1996
• Initial Request for Proposal
• Final Request for Proposal
• Call For Improvements

• Lockheed Martin proposal
• McDonnell-Douglas proposal
• Boeing proposal
• Alliant Techsystems proposal
New Launch Facilities

X-40 Military Spaceplane Integrated Tech Testbed
X-41 Common Aero Vehicle (CAV)
X-42 Pop-Up Upper Stage

Other Resources

• DoD Space Launch Modernization Plan, Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., briefing to congressional staffers, 17 May 1994 (3 MB PDF file)
• Jonathan's Space Home Page
• UNITED STATES MILITARY MANIFEST
• Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

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