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PROJECT: TELESAT-C

GENERAL RELEASE ............... ................ 1-4

LAUNCH OPERATIONS ................ .............. 5

STRAIGHT-EIGHT DELTA FACTS AND FIGURES o....... 6-7
MAJOR DELTA/TELESAT-C FLIGHT EVENTS ........... 8
TRACKING AND DATA OPERATIONS .................. 9
THE TELESAT/DELTA TEAM
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 National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Washington D C 20546
AC 202 755-8370

F')r Release
Ann Weeks
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
IMMEDIATE
(Phone: 202/755-8347)

Joe McRoberts
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
(Phone: Md.
301/982-4955)

RELEASE NO: 75-113

NASA TO LAUNCH CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS

SATELLITF

The third in a series of Canadian

domestic communications
satellites, Telesat-C, will be launched
by NASA from Cape
Canaveral, Fla., aboard a Delta rocket
about May 7.

Telesat-C will be placed in synchronous

orbit over the
equator at 119 degrees West Longitude
(due south of Los Angeles),
where it will receive television
and telephone transmission
to ground stations in Canada. Each Telesat is able to accom-
modate 10 color television channels
or up to 9,600 telephone
circuits.

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ANIK-3 -
Once in orbit, the satellite will be called

Eskimo for "brother."

1973 are located

Two earlier Telesats launched in 1972 and
respectively,
at 114 degrees and 109 degrees west longitude
television and tele-
from which positions they have provided
of Canada. Telesat
phone service to the most remote areas

Canada manages the Telesat program.

describing the
David Golden, President of Telesat Canada,
in northern Canada,
impact of ANIK communications, especially
dramatic e fect,
said: "There's no doubt that TV is having a
be even more dramatic
but in the long run I think there will
ordinary social rela-
effects on industry, business, commerce,
This is going to be
tions, feelings of identity, homogeneity.
services which can
manifested in the ordinary communications

be afforded by satellite."

initially into
The Delta vehicle will place tle spacecraft
kilometers (144 to
a highly elliptical orbit of 232 to 36,150
launch,
22,460 miles). On the seventh apogee, three days after
the satellite will be
a solid propellant rocket motor on board
the orbit at
commanded to fire from the ground to circularize
mi.).
a synchronous altitude of 36,234 km (22,506

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At this altitude the speed of the spacecraft in orbit

matches the rotational speed of Earth so that it appears to

hover over one spot. Small gas jets on board will keep the
spacecraft "on station" and oriented properly toward Earth
to reqeive and retransmit signals.

Telesat satellites are about 1.8 meters (six feet) in

diameter, stand about 3.3 m (11 ft.) tall, and weight about
270 kilograms (600 pounds) in orbit. Some 23,000 solar cells
and batteries give forth adequate power when the spacecraft
is in the Sun and during the short periods when it is in dark-
ness or eclipse. Expected lifetime of the satellite is seven

years.

Telesat Canada was established by the Canadian government

in 1969 to own and operate its domestic satellite communications

system. NASA provides the launch vehicle and launch services,

and is reimbursed for this support by Telesat Canada.

Command and data analysis are the responsibility of the

Telesat Satellite Control Center, Ottawa. Tracking, trans-

mission and reception of data will be provided by the Telesat

Earth station near Allan Park, Ontario, about 130 km (80 mi.)
west of Toronto.

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The Delta Project is managed by the Goddard Space Flight

Center, Greenbelt, Md. Launch services are provided by the

Kennedy Space Center, Fla. McDonnell Douglas Astronautics

Co., Huntington Beach, Calif., is the Delta prime contractor

and Hughes Aircraft Co., Culver City, Calif., built the

spacecraft for Telesat Canada.

(END OF GENERAL RELEASE. BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOLLOWS)

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 LAUNCH OPERATIONS

The spacecraft will be launched from Complex 17B at the

Eastern Test Range, Fla., by a three-stage Delta launch vehicle.

F rst Stage:

The first stage is a McDonnell Douglas modified Thor booster

incorporating nine strap-on Thiokol solid-fuel rocket motors.
The booster is powered by a Pocketdyne engine using liquid oxygen
and liquid hydrocarbon propellants. The main engine is gimbal-
mounted to provide pitch and yaw control from lift to main engine
cutoff (MECO).

Second Stage

The second stage is powered by a TRW liquid-fuel, pressure-

fed engine that also is gimbal-mounted to provide pitch and yaw
control through second-stage burn. A nitrogen gas system uses
eight fixed nozzles for roll control during powered and coast
flight, as well as pitch and yaw control during coast and after
second-stage cutoff. Two fixed nozzles, fed by the propellant-
tank, helium-pressurization system, provide retro-thrust after
third stage separation.

Third Stage:

The third stage is the TE-364-4 spin-stabilized, solid-

propellant Thiokol motor. It is secured in a spintable mounted to
the second stage. The firing of eight solid-propellant rockets
fixed to the spintablr.. accomplishes spin-up of the third stage
spacecraft assembly.

Injection Into Synchronous Orbit

The Delta vehicle will inject Telesat-C into transfer

orb t with an apogee of 36,150 km (22,460 mi.). The apogee
boost motor (ABM) will be fired to place the spacecraft in
synchronous orbit on the seventh apogee, after which it will
drift to its station at 119 degrees west longitude at a rate
of about six degrees each day,

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STRAIGHT-EIGHT DELTA FACTS AND FIGURES

The Delta has the following general characteristics:

Height: 35.4 m (116 ft.) including shroud
Maximum diameter: 2.4 m (8 ft.) without attached solids
Liftoff weight: 133,180 kg (293,000 lbs.)
Liftoff thrust: 1,741,475 Newtons (391,343 lbs.)
including strap-on solids

First Stage -- (Liquid only) consists of an extended long

tank Thor, produced by McDonnell. Douglas. The RS-27 engines
are produced by the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International.
The stage has the following characteristics:
Diameter: 2.4 m (8 ft.)
Height: 21.3 m (70 ft.)
Propellants: RJ-1 kerosene as the fuel and liquid oxygen
(LOX) as the oxidizer
Thrust: 912,000 N (205,000 lbs.)
Burning time: about 3.48 minu.es
Weight: about 84,600 kg (186,000 lbs.) excluding strap-on
solids

Strap-on solids consist of nine solid propellant rockets

produced by the Thiokol Chemical Corp., with the following
features:
Diameter: 0.8 m (31 in.)
Height: 7 m (23.6 ft.)
Total weight: 40,300 kg (88,650 lbs.) for nine
4,475 Xg (9,850 lbs.) each
Thrust: 2,083,000 N (468,000 lbs.) for nine
231,400 N (52,000 lbs.) each
Burning time: 38 seconds

Second Stage -- Produced by McDonnell Douqlas AstronautjcC

Co., utilizing a TRW TR-201 rocket engine; major contractors
for the vehicle inertial guidance system located on the second
stage are Hamilton Standard and Teledyne.

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Propellants: Liquid, consists of Aerozene 50 for the

fuel and Nitrogen Tetroxide (N2 04 ) for the oxidizer
Diameter: 1.5 m (5 ft.) plus 2.4 m (8 ft.) attached ring
Height: 6.4 m (21 ft.)
Weight: 6,180 kg (13,596 lbs.)
Thrust: about 42,923 N (9,650 lbs.)
Total burning time: 335 seconds
Third Stage -- Thiokol Chemical Co. TE-364-4 motor

Propellants: solid
Height: 1.4 in (4.5 ft.)
Diameter: in (3 ft.)
Weight: 1,160 kg (2,560 lbs.)
Thrust: 61,858 N (13,900 lbs.)
Burning time: 44 seconds

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TRACKING AND DATA OPERATIONS

The Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN) will

provide launch vehicle support for the mission. The tracking
network includes stations at Johannesburg, South Africa;
Tananarive, Malagasy Republic; Orroral, Australia; Santiago,
Chile; Quito, Ecuador; and Rosman, N.C.

The STDN and mission and data operations are managed by

the Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA's Office of Tracking
and Data Acquisition.

THE TELESAT/DELTA TEAM

NASA Headquarters

Dr. Noel W. HinnerL Associate Administrator

for Space Science

John M. Thole Deputy Associate Administrator

for Space Science

Joseph B. Mahon Director, Launch Vehicle and

Propulsion Program

I. T. Gillam IV Manager, Small Launch Vehicles

and International Programs

Peter Eaton Manager, Delta

Gerald M. Truszynski Associate Administrator for

Tracking and Data Acquisition

Goddard Space Flight Ceiter

Dr. John F. Clark Director

Robert C. Baumann Associate Director of Projects

for Delta

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Kennedy Space Center

Lee R. Scherer Director

John J. Neilon Director of Unmanned Launch

Operations

Hugh A. Weston, Jr. Manager, Delta Operations

William R. Fletcher, Jr. Spacecraft Coordinator

Wayne McCall Chief Engineer, Delta

Operations

Telesat Canada

David A. Golden President

William Zatychec Manager, Spacecraft Group

Contractors

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co.

Huntington Beach, Calif. Delta launch vehicle

Hughes Aircraft Co.

Santa Barbara Research Center
Santa Barbara, Calif. Spacecraft

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