I also got the top level configuration drawings.
Jim...of the 3 planned Shuttle / Centaur missions in 1986, was payload weight close to the 65k max permitted?Thanks.
Quote from: Jim on 05/01/2010 08:50 pmI also got the top level configuration drawings.No way you could scan those?
Quote from: DaveS on 05/01/2010 10:14 pmQuote from: Jim on 05/01/2010 08:50 pmI also got the top level configuration drawings.No way you could scan those?They are full size, I only have a 8x 11 scanner.
Very nice find Jim! Blackstar: Read the NASA SP Taming Liquid Hydrogen, The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4230.pdfThe answer you want is in Chapter 7, Eclipsed by Tragedy, page 206.
Quote from: DaveS on 05/01/2010 05:23 pmVery nice find Jim! Blackstar: Read the NASA SP Taming Liquid Hydrogen, The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4230.pdfThe answer you want is in Chapter 7, Eclipsed by Tragedy, page 206.Yeah, I'm mentioned in the acknowledgments section of that book for helping the author with the manuscript, but I don't remember it having the answer.
Oh, those are nice!I've whined about this before, but I'll do so again: there's no good history explaining why--with citations--the Shuttle Centaur was canceled. The few accounts that I have read essentially say "after Challenger, the astronauts objected and it was eliminated." But there had to be meetings where it was discussed, and data that was presented.
Quote from: Jim on 05/01/2010 11:19 pmQuote from: DaveS on 05/01/2010 10:14 pmQuote from: Jim on 05/01/2010 08:50 pmI also got the top level configuration drawings.No way you could scan those?They are full size, I only have a 8x 11 scanner.No way you could scan them in segments and then use a photo-editing program to stitch them back together? If you can scan and post the segments, I can stitch them back together into the full images.
Jim,I'd like to thank you for posting those images I'd only seen one of them before, the second of the Galileo pictures.
What I don't understand is why this hardware is not used for EELV for LEO payloads. Yeah, I know that there aren't any actual LEO payloads that need it today, but there are plenty of potential payloads, like Orion.
Sorry for the necromancy, but I just found a bunch of images of the sole Centaur-G on display. Enjoy!