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SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLES AND PROPULSION

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Agena

Reusable Agena Study. Volume 1: Executive Summary; Space Shuttle Agena Upper Stage Tug Concept

Agena Monthly Progress Report, December 1962

January 1963Agena Monthly Progress Report, January

NASA AGENA D MISSION CAPABILITIES AND RESTRAINTS CATALOG, VOLUME II

Apollo-Little Joe

See MANNED SPACEFLIGHT PDF

Atlas

Experimental bending strength of an Atlas LV-3C booster beyond compressive skin wrinkling

STATIC LOAD TESTS ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, ATLAS VEHICLE LAUNCHER

Atlas-Centaur

Postflight Trajectory Reassembly AC-6

ATLAS-CENTAUR VI FLIGHT PATH AND ITS DETERMINATION FROM TRACKING DATA

ATLAS/CENTAUR LAUNCH-ON-TIME STUDY FINAL REPORT /SURVEYOR MISSION

Atlas-Centaur Flight Performance for Surveyor Mission A

Design of coast-phase propellant management system for two-burn Atlas-Centaur flight AC-8

Range Safety Aerodynamics Data for Atlas/ Centaur/Surveyor Direct Ascent Flights

Study of separation dynamics and systems related to staging of Atlas-Centaur

Management of cryogenic propellants in a full scale orbiting space vehicle

Origin of high-intensity noise in the area of a large protuberance on a launch vehicle

Flight-wind restrictions procedure, Atlas/Centaur AC-10 through AC-15

Flight-wind restrictions procedure, Atlas/Centaur AC-10 through AC-15. ADDENDUM I - Backup procedure

EVALUATION OF THE MARC 7G1 AUXILIARY ROCKET MOTOR FOR USE ON THE ATLAS-CENTAUR VEHICLE FINAL REPORT, MAR. - OCT. 1965

EVALUATION OF THE MARC 7G1 AUXILIARY ROCKET MOTOR FOR USE ON THE ATLAS-CENTAUR VEHICLE FINAL REPORT

INTERSTAGE ADAPTER PANEL FLUTTER ON ATLAS- CENTAUR AC-2, AC-3, AND AC-4 VEHICLES

ATLAS/CENTAUR LAUNCH-ON-TIME STUDY FINAL REPORT /SURVEYOR MISSION/

Investigation of Atlas Solid Fuel Retarding Rocket During Atlas-Centaur Separation Tests

Flight Dynamics and Control Analysis of the Centaur Vehicle /Atlas/Centaur AC-5/

Comparison of the Atlas/Centaur /Surveyor/ and IGM guidance concepts

Surveyor A /AC-10/ flash flight report

Atlas-Centaur-Surveyor longitudinal dynamics test

ATLAS-CENTAUR AC-5 ANALOG/DIGITAL LOAD REDUCTION AUTOPILOT STUDY

External design loads - Operational Centaur vehicles /AC-6 through AC-15/

Atlas-Centaur AC-17 performance for applications technology satellite ATS-D mission

Atlas-Centaur AC-18 performance evaluation for Applications Technology Satellite ATS-5 mission

Atlas Centaur-29 Intelsat IV (F5) flash flight report

NEWThorad-Agena ascent and Agena orbital performance evaluation for Space Electric Rocket Test 2 /SERT 2/ mission

Atlas-Agena

NASA AGENA D MISSION CAPABILITIES AND RESTRAINTS CATALOG, VOLUME II

Preliminary launch vehicle flight evaluation report NASA Applications Technological Satellite /ATS/ program flight no. 1, NASA ATLAS - Agena no. 19 /launched December 6, 1966/

Atlas Agena-18 Lunar Orbiter B operations summary

Atlas Agena-26 orbiting geophysical observatory-5 flash flight report

Flight performance of the Atlas-Agena launch vehicle in support of the Applications Technology Satellite ATS-3

Atlas-Agena flight performance for the Applications Technology Satellite ATS-1 mission

Atlas-Agena performance for the 1967 Mariner Venus mission

Flight performance of Atlas-Agena launch vehicles in support of the Lunar Orbiter missions 3, 4, and 5

Centaur

Centaur launch vehicle propellant utilization system

Centaur AC-6 nose fairing separation tests

Centaur electrical system problems, related work, and solutions

Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket 1958 - 2002 (NASA History Office)

CONTROL DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF THE CENTAUR STAGE PROPELLANT UTILIZATION CONTROL SYSTEM

Centaur space vehicle pressurized propellant feed system tests

Delta

The fragmentation of the Nimbus 6 rocket body

Performance of the Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility During Altitude Firing Tests of the Delta 3 Upper Stage

Delta 2 Explosion Plume Analysis Report

Flight Vibration Data from the Delta 9 Launch Vehicle

Operations Analysis of Integration Checkout and Launch of Space Vehicles-Delta Vehicle General Evaluation Approach, Vol 1

Gemini Atlas-Agena

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Gemini-Titan

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Japanese Launch Vehicles

H-IIA Launch Vehicle (jaxa.jp)

M-V Launch Vehicle(jaxa.jp)

H-IIA Transfer Vehicle (HTV)(jaxa.jp)

LNG Propulsion System Flight Demonstration Project(jaxa.jp)

Jupiter

Jupiter Monograph

Mercury Atlas

See MANNED SPACEFLIGHT PDF

Mercury-Little Joe

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Mercury-Redstone

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Saturn I

See MANNED SPACEFLIGHT PDF

Saturn IB

SeeMANNED SPACEFLIGHT PDF

Saturn V

See MANNED SPACEFLIGHT PDF

Scout

SCOUT SYSTEM DESIGN REPORT

Scout System Design Report. Supplement I- Basic System Design Data

Acoustic data from the launch of Scout S-172C /ESRO 1-B/ and Scout S-169 /GRS-A/

Considerations Affecting Satellite and Space Probe Research with Emphasis on the 'Scout' as a Launch Vehicle

Scout ST-1 Flight Tests, Launch Operations, Test Vehicle Description

Flight Performance Data from the Scout X-258 Rocket Motor

Scout launch vehicle program, phase 6, part 1

Scout launch vehicle program, phase 6, part 1

Scout launch vehicle program, phase 6. Specifications: Detail specification for transportation of Scout launch vehicle solid propellant rocket motors

TUNNEL MOUNTED AUTO DESTRUCT MODULE SCOUT VEHICLE

Coning Motions of the Final Stages of Three NASA Scout Development Vehicles

ORBITAL ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE SCOUT RESEARCH VEHICLE

Sounding Rockets

A PROGRAM OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY FROM SOUNDING ROCKET FINAL REPORT

A Nike Failure Study

INVESTIGATION OF IN-FLIGHT ROLL CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR SOUNDING ROCKETS FINAL

NASA LANGLEY SMALL METEOROLOGICAL SOUNDING ROCKET DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

NASA Sounding Rockets (GSFC)

NASA SOUNDING ROCKET PROGRAM - SUMMARY OF SOUNDING ROCKET FLIGHTS

Sounding Rocket Users Handbook (WFF)

HOPI-DART AND CAJUN-DART ROCKET WIND MEASURING SYSTEMS

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY FOR THE IRIS SOUNDING ROCKET VEHICLE

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY FOR THE JASON SOUNDING ROCKET VEHICLE

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY FOR THE AEROBEE 150A SOUNDING ROCKET VEHICLE

A Compendium of Aerobee Sounding Rocket Launchings from 1959 through 1963

A Compendium of NASA Aerobee Sounding Rocket Launchings for 1966

Nike-Apache Sounding Rocket Performance Handbook

Mobile Aerobee launch facility

NASA sounding rockets, 1958 - 1968: A historical summary

Nike Tomahawk preliminary performance studies

Cajun-Dart sounding vehicle Final report

Cajun Dart 95 kilometer Sounding Rocket

Instrumentation and flight report on Astrobee 1500 flight 16.02 GT

A program of X-ray astronomy from sounding rocket Final report

Goddard Projects Summary- Satellites and Sounding Rockets

Comparison of Theoretical with Actual Nike-Apache Sounding-Rocket Performance

Sounding Rocket Reliability Reassessment

NASA sounding rocket survey for future development

Thor

Design feasibility report: Thor test booster for the NASA manned space capsule

Thorad-Agena performance for the Nimbus 3 mission

Comparison of Pre-Launch and Flight Vibration Measurements on Thor Launch Vehicles

NEWThorad-Agena ascent and Agena orbital performance evaluation for Space Electric Rocket Test 2 /SERT 2/ mission

NEWThorad-Agena performance for the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 6 mission

NEWThrust Augmented Thor-Agena performance for the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO-4 mission

Titan II

Titan II Space Launch Vehcle Profile (GSFC)

Titan III

Compilation of Flight Data from Titan III Vehicles

Titan III boosters for Langley's manned lifting body entry program

Titian Centaur D-1TTC-4 Viking A flight data report

Titan Centaur D1TTC-3 Viking B flight data report

Vanguard

The Vanguard Satellite Launching Vehicle: An Engineering Summary

VEGA (ESA)

VEGA-Realizing Europe's Small Launcher

Vega: The European Small Launcher

Viking

The Viking Rocket A Memoir

MISC.

An Analysis of Chemical Upper Stages for NASA Scientific Missions(1965)

Chronology of Major NASA Launchings

Coqui Dos (GSFC)

European Launchers for the World (ESA)

Launch vehicle handbook. Compilation of launch vehicle performance and weight data for preliminary planning purposes

National launch vehicle summary. Revision 3

Launch vehicles of the national launch vehicle program, NASA programs (1964)

Nuclear Rocket Propulsion

Overview of NASA's Electric Propulsion Program (JPL)

Rocket Propulsion Research Lewis Research Center

Review of Solid Propellants for Space Exploration

Updated 02/03/2008

 


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