02-08-2010, 10:55 AM
The three A-IIIs after the first are different from the initial vehicle. They have a thermal insulation blanket around the F/S nozzle to prevent re-entrant exhaust heating. So we should rule out the first flight. Can some one plot on probability paper the three flights?
Arun_S, 800 sec is total time of flight. With the mass parameters(two stage, 50 tonne, 1.5 tonne payload) can you see what is the trajectory for 350km apogee? What is its terminal velocity? I don't like the low beta.
Arun_S, 800 sec is total time of flight. With the mass parameters(two stage, 50 tonne, 1.5 tonne payload) can you see what is the trajectory for 350km apogee? What is its terminal velocity? I don't like the low beta.