[AR] Re: Valley Tech throttleable restartable solids (!)
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:27:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Anthony Cesaroni wrote:
Minuteman termination. That’s funny. Must have been for range safety
during testing.
No, all three operational Minuteman versions had thrust termination on the
third stage, to improve insertion accuracy (although on Minuteman III the
requirements were relaxed a bit because the liquid-fuel MIRV maneuvering
stage could do final velocity trim). See attached excerpts from a slide
set about Minuteman hardware (which refers only to Minuteman II and III
because it was written after Minuteman I was retired).
Henry
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