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Paper Session Ii-A - Potential Use Of Smaller Satellites For Military Space Operations, Dennis Montera, Thomas Utsch

Space Congress® Proceedings

This paper describes potentially attractive uses of smaller satellites for complementing current Air Force space systems. By mission area, the applications of smaller satellites as enhancements to current systems are shown for three operational scenarios: (1) to provide dedicated support to tactical war-fighting users, (2) to provide a quick-response surge to augment current systems in a crisis, and (3) in the case of the failure or loss of a satellite, to provide responsive back-up systems for use until new primary systems can be deployed. Preliminary results show that in every space mission area, smaller satellites can potentially provide a useful …

Paper Session Ii-A - Satisfying User Requirements - Space And The Operational Commander, Nancy M. Mcmahan

Space Congress® Proceedings

In the past, satellites were designed without adequately discussing issues with the users. This is an extremely poor business practice; if the acquisition community were a competitive business, that attitude would be considered a precursor to failure. A change in attitude comparable to the customer awareness inherent in a competitive environment would have several positive benefits. First, product design would be tailored to the customer's real needs. Second, this awareness would foster searching out the most cost-effective (in terms of time, money, technology, etc.) methods of providing equipment.

Paper Session I-C - Ranteck: The Company, William K. Vardaman

Space Congress® Proceedings

No other information or file available for this session.

Paper Session I-C - Manned Industrial Space Soonest, Leon Ronquillo, Dean Monitor

Space Congress® Proceedings

This paper, Manned Industrial Space Soonest, received its title as a take-off on the acronym MISS which stood for Man In Space Soonest. The new generation in space will be primarily concerned with development instead of exploration. We must reconsider our preconceived ideas. For instance, expendable versus reusable spacecraft does not have to mean nonreusable versus reusable launch vehicles. Reusable does not have to connote reentry, recovery, refurbish and refly. A vehicle can be designed or even modified from a conventional expendable to launch a space station or platform in a single flight and even supply a space glider to …

Paper Session I-C - A Florida Firm Enters The Commercial Space Business, James A. Ralph

Space Congress® Proceedings

International Space Corporation (ISC) is a start-up company specializing in the near term production of next-generation semiconductor materials on the ground, and later in the zerogravity of space. The primary materials to be produced are Cadmium Telluride, Gallium Arsenide and Indium Phosphide, all used in the manufacture of the next generation of computer chips, infrared sensors and fiber optic systems. ISC also designs, develops and manufactures the state-of-the-art furnaces requiredto produce these semiconductor crystal materials on the ground, and ultimately in space.

The recent econpmic upturn of the United States semiconductor and electronic industry has been spurred in major part …

Paper Session I-C - U.S. Commercial Space Enterprise - Opportunity And Challenge, Arthur N. Greene

Space Congress® Proceedings

The total market for space transportation services until the year 2000 is $25-30 Billion. Foreign space carriers have enviably positioned themselves in a posture capable of getting the lions share of that business, in the near term. The challenge to the U S aerospace community is the development of new technology and methods resulting in lowest cost, highest reliability, timely and flexible response to mission needs. Only then can we recapture the initiative through international competitiveness.

All present and past space transportation has been government subsidized, which is to say taxpayer supported. There are indications that the taxpayer is tiring …

Paper Session I-C - Corabi - The Impact Of The University On Corporate, Regional, And State Commercial Space Development, J. B. Rafert

Space Congress® Proceedings

Studies and Recommendations for Bilateral Action

• Florida Governor's Commission on Space

• National Academy of Sciences

• Business Higher Education Forum

• "Space Business, a Financial Analysis"

• "Spaceport Activity Impact Study"

• "Survey of Factors Enhancing the Growth of Aerospace Industry in Florida

• "Evaluation of Impact of Space Related Activities in the State of Hawaii"

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding elections, summary of activities for 1988-1989 and library service at satellite campuses.

Paper Session I-A - Advanced Manned Launch System (Amls) Review, Theodore A. Talay, Douglas O. Stanley, Roger A. Lepsch

Space Congress® Proceedings

A status report on advanced manned launch system (AMLS) conceptual studies being conducted at the NASA Langley Research Center is presented. The primary goal of these studies is identifying means for lowering the cost of manned access to space while fulfilling mission needs. Attention is focused on partially and fully reusable launch concepts that employ an operations-oriented design approach. Identified in particular are vehicle systems, technologies, and operations factors which influence launch costs, mission, success, and safety.

Paper Session I-A - Liquid Rocket Boosters For Shuttle, James E. Hughes

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The Liquid Rocket Booster study was initiated by NASA to define an alternative to the Solid Rocket Boosters used on the STS. These studies have involved MSFC, JSC and KSC and their contractors. The prime study contractors, Martin Marietta Corporation and General Dynamics Space Systems, have identified Liquid Booster configurations which would replace the SRB's in the Shuttle stack.

The Liquid Rocket Booster increases Shuttle performance to 70K LBS, provides improved reliability, hold down and verification prior to vehicle release, engine out and improved abort capability, and is phased into the STS launch operations without adversely affecting flight rate.

Paper Session I-A - Shuttle-C Heavy-Lift Vehicle Of The 90'S, Robert G. Eudy

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United States current and planned space activities identify the need for increased payload capacity and unmanned flight to complement the existing Shuttle.

To meet this challenge the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is defining an unmanned cargo version of the Shuttle that can give the nation early heavy-lift capability. Called Shuttle-C, this unmanned vehicle is a natural, low-cost evolution of the current Space Shuttle that can be flying 100,000 to 170,000 pound payloads by late 1994.

At the core of Shuttle-C design philosophy is the principle of evolvement from the United State's Space Transportation System. This will mimimize costs by …

Paper Session I-A - Launch Site Integration Of Liquid Rocket Boosters, Leland P. Scott, William J. Dickinson

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The impacts of introducing Liquid Rocket Boosters (LRB) into the STS/KSC launch environment are identified and evaluated. Proposed ground systems configurations are presented along with a launch site requirements summary. Pre-launch processing scenarios are described and the required facility modifications and new facility requirements are analyzed. Flight vehicle design recommendations to enhance launch processing are discussed. Processing approaches to integrate LRB with existing STS launch operations are evaluated. The key features and significance of launch site transition to a new STS configuration in parallel with on-going launch activities are enumerated.

Paper Session I-A - Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (Asrm), Kenneth W. Jones, Lowell K. Zoller

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The Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) is a150-in. diameter segmented motor design that incorporates substantive design changes to improve the reliability and design safety margins of the space shuttle system. The new motor thrust characteristics are tailored to preclude the necessity for throttling the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) during the period of maximum dynamic pressure. This reduces or eliminates about 175 criticality 1/1R failure modes for the shuttle system. Furthermore, the ASRM is designed to provide a 12,000 Ib payload improvement which will support space station development and other critical NASA missions.

To achieve the level of process control …

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss athletic budget and constitution revisions.

Lutheran Tradition And The Black Culture, James Thomas

Miscellaneous Seminars/Lectures

Black Outreach Symposium major presentation recorded on April 18, 1989, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

April Agenda, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Agenda for April meeting with note from senate president regarding the senate's activities.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss community college, president's home, health care plan, self-insurance and athletic budget.

Memo - Response To Resolution On Extended Campus Reference Service, Wku Libraries

Faculty Senate

Memo from the Department of Library Public Service to the Faculty Senate re: reference services provided at satellite campuses.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss Senior Send-Off, open positions and book exchange.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Second session of the March meeting regrading travel funds, salaries, merit pay, athletic budget and constitution.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss installation of WKU president Thomas Meredith, shuttle shelter construction, ASG Banquet, open positions, book exchange and Stay and Play Weekend.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss shuttle stops, elections, book exchange, Hell No, We Won't Go weekend and award nominations.

Resolution 89-8-S - Conversion Of Non-Airconditioned Residence Hall To Coed Housing, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to create additional coed housing.

Resolution 89-7-S - Reschedule Spring Break, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to move spring break to third week of March.

March Agenda, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Agenda for March meeting with welcome to Thomas Meredith.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding NCAA infractions, football budget, library funding, president's installation, graduation, vacations and administrative evaluations.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss oozeball tournament, study rooms in Downing University Center during finals week, open positions, elections, book exchange and change in Spring Break.

Emerging Economic And Demographic Trends Affecting Transportation, Clint Oster

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

A County Engineer's View Of Local Roads And Streets From The Legislature, Bernard Lieder

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Bituminous Quality Assurance Status Report, Ronald P. Walker

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.