[AR] Re: Valley Tech throttleable restartable solids (!)
- From: Derek Lyons <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:23:35 -0700
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:28 PM Anthony Cesaroni <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Minuteman termination. That’s funny. Must have been for range safety
during testing.
Nope. They used thrust termination for DV control, later supplemented by
fine control via the PBCS. (As did the MX/Peacekeeper.) Polaris A-1 and
A-2, Poseidon, and both versions of the Pershing (among others) used the
same technique.
D.
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