Atlas SLV-3 Space Launch Vehicle Flight Evaluation Report SLV-3 7128.

摘要

Atlas 7128, the thirty-seventh Atlas boost vehicle to be used in support of this particular Atlas/Agena program, was successfully launched from SLC-4E on 4 June 1967. This was the ninety-third Atlas to be employed in the Atlas/Agena programs. The Atlas flight objectives were fully satisfied. The upper stage vehicle was boosted into the specified coast ellipse, Atlas/Agena separation was properly accomplished, and telemetry data were obtained for Atlas systems analysis. Fulfillment of the insertion parameters at the termination of Atlas powered flight placed the upper stage vehicle at the proper space position with the required velocity for continuation of the mission by the second stage Agena vehicle. GE/Burroughs guidance computer data indicated very close adherence to the inflight-calculated insertion parameters upon the termination of Atlas powered flight. The desired VECO insertion velocities are determined in flight as those required to achieve the preflight-specified coast ellipse from the actual flight path being followed by the Atlas in powered flight.