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Project SCORE- 50th Anniversary Celebration
Big Party.
December 18, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SCORE SCORE's technical objectives were two-fold. In addition to showing that an Atlas missile could be put into orbit, the project demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting messages through the upper atmosphere from one ground station to one or more ground stations. The result of the project, which used both realtime and store and forward techniques, was unquestionably a major scientific breakthrough which proved that active communications satellites could provide a means of transmitting messages from one point to any other on the planet Earth. SCORE, as a geo-political strategy, placed the United States at an even technological par with the Soviet Union as a highly functional response to the Sputnik satellites. "This is the President of the United States speaking. Through the marvels of scientific advance, my voice is coming to you via a satellite circling in outer space. My message is a simple one: Through this unique means I convey to you and all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill toward men everywhere." That should be the US message to the world WRT - the space program. It was the first ever kerosene stage and a half to orbit spaceflight. |
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:26:26 -0500, kT wrote:
Big Party. December 18, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SCORE SCORE's technical objectives were two-fold. In addition to showing that an Atlas missile could be put into orbit, the project demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting messages through the upper atmosphere from one ground station to one or more ground stations. The result of the project, which used both realtime and store and forward techniques, was unquestionably a major scientific breakthrough which proved that active communications satellites could provide a means of transmitting messages from one point to any other on the planet Earth. SCORE, as a geo-political strategy, placed the United States at an even technological par with the Soviet Union as a highly functional response to the Sputnik satellites. "This is the President of the United States speaking. Through the marvels of scientific advance, my voice is coming to you via a satellite circling in outer space. My message is a simple one: Through this unique means I convey to you and all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill toward men everywhere." That should be the US message to the world WRT - the space program. It was the first ever kerosene stage and a half to orbit spaceflight. What do you call the Semyorka booster for Sputnik 1,2 and 3 ? |
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Joe wrote: What do you call the Semyorka booster for Sputnik 1,2 and 3 ? Depends what the upper stage is. It went from the R-7 "Semyorka"/"Sputnik" to "Luna", "Vostok" "Voskhod" "Molniya" and "Soyuz" in that order. Luna and Vostok used basically the same small upper stage, Then the bigger upper stage used first by Voskhod, then in a uprated form for the Molniya comsats, then again modified for Soyuz. The Molniya and Soyuz variants of the rocket proved long-lived. |
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Joe wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:26:26 -0500, kT wrote: Big Party. December 18, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SCORE SCORE's technical objectives were two-fold. In addition to showing that an Atlas missile could be put into orbit, the project demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting messages through the upper atmosphere from one ground station to one or more ground stations. The result of the project, which used both realtime and store and forward techniques, was unquestionably a major scientific breakthrough which proved that active communications satellites could provide a means of transmitting messages from one point to any other on the planet Earth. SCORE, as a geo-political strategy, placed the United States at an even technological par with the Soviet Union as a highly functional response to the Sputnik satellites. "This is the President of the United States speaking. Through the marvels of scientific advance, my voice is coming to you via a satellite circling in outer space. My message is a simple one: Through this unique means I convey to you and all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill toward men everywhere." That should be the US message to the world WRT - the space program. It was the first ever kerosene stage and a half to orbit spaceflight. What do you call the Semyorka booster for Sputnik 1,2 and 3 ? Expendable boosters. Actually, SCORE was SSTO. Sorry. Got any other semantics you want to argue? Here's how I would call it. Since the R-7 was 4 by 1 with expendable booster tankage, I'd call it two stage to orbit, and since the Atlas was 1 by 3 with integral tank, call it single stage to orbit. That's the point I'm trying to make. Stage and a half is a total cop out and rather non descriptive to boot. My working group has developed an entire nomenclature to handle the geometric and combinatorial analysis of launch vehicle architectures. You'll just have to develop your own damn language and tools. |
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You'll just have to develop your own damn language and tools. No, idiot, I'm just using language that Charles Sheldon used. Google him, you pathetic piece of excrement. |
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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. |
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Joe wrote:
You'll just have to develop your own damn language and tools. No, idiot, I'm just using language that Charles Sheldon used. Google him, you pathetic piece of excrement. Why don't you just take the time to splain it to us, cowboy. I already explained my nomenclature and terminology for subtle nuances of geometry, structure and composition in launch vehicle architecture. |
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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 |
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Project SCORE- 50th Anniversary Celebration
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? |
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