Quote from: Kabloona on 03/23/2013 11:56 pm The motor diameters, lengths, etc were probably optimized for Pegasus, but Hercules already had the low-cost GEM case technology and propellant forumulation from the strap-ons they had already developed for Delta II, so they applied what they could from GEM to the Orion 50 series.Pegasus flew before the first GEM.
The motor diameters, lengths, etc were probably optimized for Pegasus, but Hercules already had the low-cost GEM case technology and propellant forumulation from the strap-ons they had already developed for Delta II, so they applied what they could from GEM to the Orion 50 series.
I saw a inert Pegasus perform B-52 fitchecks in 8/89 at EAFB
MLV contract was awarded 1987