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This final report, dated September 10, 1996, was prepared by the Research Triangle Institute for the Department of the Air Force's 45th and 30th Space Wing safety offices. Titled Modeling Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, it shows how rare Mode-5 failures, in which a rocket veers well off its intended flight line, are modeled in the DAMP risk-analysis program. An appendix lists Atlas, Delta, Titan and Thor launch and failure histories through August 1996.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 9/10/96, N/A. This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.
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0.2.1 Atlas Launch History The data in Table 41 summarize the flight performance of all Atlas and Atlas-boosted space-vehicle launches since the program began in June 1957. A launch sequence number is provided in the first column, a mission ID and launch date in columns 2 and 3. The vehicle configuration or Atlas booster number is given in the fourth column, while the fifth column shows whether the launch took place from the Eastern or Western Range. The last three columns in the table show, respectively, the response mode assigned by RTI to any failure or anomalous behavior that occurred, the flight phase in which it occurred, and whether the vehicle configuration is considered representative for the purposes of predicting future Atlas reliability. Launches through sequence number 532 were used in the filtering process to estimate failure rate. Table 41. Atlas Launch History No. Mission/ID Launch Date Vehicle Test ConfKJuration Ranae 4A ER 6A ER Response Mode 4T 4 Flight Phase 1 1 Rep. Cont. 0 0 1 2 Weaoons Svstem (WS) ws 06/11/57 09/25/57 3 ws 12/17/57 12A ER 0 4 ws 01/10/58 10A ER 0 5 ws 02/07/58 13A ER 4 1 0 6 ws 02120/58 11A ER 4T 1 0 7 ws 04/05/58 15A ER 4 1 0 8 9 10 ws ws ws 06/03/58 07/19/58 08/02168 16A ER 38 ER 48 ER 4T 1 0 0 0 11 12 13 14 15 ws ws ws ws ws 08/28/58 09/14/58 09/18/58 11/17/58 11128/58 58 ER 88 ER 68 ER 98 ER 128 ER 4 4 4 4 2.5 2.5 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 SCORE 12/18/58 108 LV-3A/AGENA ER 0 17 18 19 20 21 22 ws ws ws ws ws ws 12123/58 01/15/59 01/27/59 02/04/59 02/20/59 03/18/59 3C ER 138 ER 4C ER 118 ER 5C ER 7C ER 5 5 4 4 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 ws 04/14/59 3D ER 4 1 0 24 25 26 ws ws ws 05/18/59 06/06/59 07/21/59 70 ER 5D ER SC ER 4 4 1 2 0 0 0 27 ws 07/28/59 11D ER 0 28 ws 08/11/59 14D ER 0 29 30 31 ws MERCURY (test) DESERT HEAT 08/24/59 09/09/59 09/09/59 11C ER 10D LV-38 ER 12D WR 4 2 0 0 0 9/10/96 103 RTI
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