Documents / Report
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.
“Titan II”13 pages
15. 11Titan IV, America's Silent Hero", published by Lockheed Martin in Florida Today, 13 Nov 95. 16. "Atlas Program Flight History" (through April 1965), General Dynamics Report EM-1860, 26 April 1965. 17. Fenske, C. W., "Atlas Flight Program Summary", Lockheed Martin, April 1995. 18. Brater, Bob, "Launch History'', Lockheed Martin FAX to-RTI, March 13, 1996. 19. Several USAF Accident/Incident Reports for Atlas and Titan failures. 20. Quintero, Andrew H., "Launch Failures from the Eastern Range Since 1975", Aerospace memo, February 25., 1996, provided to RTI by Bill Zelinsky. 21. Set of ''Titan Flight Anomaly /Failure Summary'' since 1959, received from Lockheed Martin, April 4, 1996. 22. Chang, I-Shih~ "Space Launch Vehicle Failures (1984 - 1995)", Aerospace Report No. TOR-96(8504)-2, January 1996. 9/10/96 172 RTI
Not linked to a story yet.
Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 181 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.