Project SCORE- 50th Anniversary Celebration

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:48:48 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:



Joe wrote:
What do you call the Semyorka booster for Sputnik 1,2 and 3 ?


Depends what the upper stage is.
Of course, the Semyorka for Sputnics 1,2 and 3 had no upper stage;remember? It was a stage and a half launcher.

Joe wrote:
Depends what the upper stage is.
Of course, the Semyorka for Sputnics 1,2 and 3 had no upper stage;remember? It was a stage and a half launcher.


And it was just called the Semyorka or Sputnik booster, as it was never
used for anything like that again. The role of small satellite launching
was taken over by the SS-4 "Sandal" derived B-1 small Cosmos launch
vehicle in combination with the SS-5 "Skean" derived C-1 large Cosmos
launch vehicle. The B-1 can put 1,000 pounds into LEO, the C-1 can put
3,400 pounds into orbit. That gave the C-1 around the same payload as
the basic R-7 without upper stages at considerably lower launch cost per
mission.

Pat

Hey does anyoner here know what search terms I should use over at the
NASA technical reports server website to find any technical PDF files
on project SCORE?