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Family: Miscellany. Country: USA. Status: Hardware. Other Designations: LMLV. Manufacturer's Designation: LLV.
Privately funded solid propellant satellite launch vehicle. Basic version with Castor 120 first stage, Orbus second stage, and OAM Orbital Adjustment Module. Formerly LMLV (Lockheed-Martin Launch Vehicle); LLV (Lockheed Launch Vehicle) .
SpecificationsLaunches: 3. Failures: 1. Success Rate: 66.67% pct. First Launch Date: 15 August 1995. Last Launch Date: 27 January 1999. LEO Payload: 820 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 28.5 degrees. Payload: 360 kg. to a: Sun synchronouts, 800 km, 98.6 deg orbit trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 147,800 kgf. Total Mass: 66,300 kg. Core Diameter: 2.4 m. Total Length: 18.9 m. Launch Price $: 17.00 million. in 2000 price dollars.
- Stage Number: 1. 1 x Castor 120 Gross Mass: 53,020 kg. Empty Mass: 4,211 kg. Thrust (vac): 163,827 kgf. Isp: 286 sec. Burn time: 83 sec. Isp(sl): 229 sec. Diameter: 2.4 m. Span: 2.4 m. Length: 10.7 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. Castor 120
- Stage Number: 2. 1 x ESBM Gross Mass: 10,810 kg. Empty Mass: 1,030 kg. Thrust (vac): 19,300 kgf. Isp: 293 sec. Burn time: 150 sec. Diameter: 2.3 m. Span: 2.3 m. Length: 3.0 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. SRM-1
- Stage Number: 3. 1 x OAM Gross Mass: 714 kg. Empty Mass: 360 kg. Thrust (vac): 90 kgf. Isp: 222 sec. Burn time: 1,500 sec. Diameter: 2.3 m. Span: 2.3 m. Length: 1.0 m. Propellants: Hydrazine No Engines: 4. MR-107
Athena-1 Chronology
1995 Aug 15 - - 22:30 GMT. LV Configuration: LLV-1 s/n LM-001. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Complex: SLC6. FAILURE: Destroyed by range safety 160 sec into flight after failure of thrust vector control system.
1997 Aug 23 - - 06:51 GMT. LV Configuration: LMLV-1 s/n LM-002?. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Complex: SLC6.
- Lewis Spacecraft: Lewis. Payload: SSTI/Lewis.
Reentered Sep 28
1999 Jan 27 - - 00:34 GMT. LV Configuration: Athena-1 s/n LM-6. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: SLC46.
- ROCSAT-1 Spacecraft: ROCSAT. Mass: 400 kg.
Taiwan's first satellite, with experimental communications, ocean imagery, and ionospheric studies instruments. The Primex OAM placed itself and the payload into an elliptical transfer orbit. A second OAM burn circularized the orbit, and ROCSAT separated into a 588 x 601 km x 35.0 deg orbit.
Bibliography:- 42 - Isakowitz, Steven J,, International Reference to Space Launch Systems Second Edition, AIAA, Washington DC, 1991.
- 61 - Wilson, Andrew, editor,, Jane's/Interavia Space Directory, Jane's Information Group, Coulsdon, Surrey, 1992 et al.
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