Transtage
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Transtage, given the United States Air Force designation SSB-10A, was an American upper stage used on Titan III rockets, developed by Martin Marietta and Aerojet.
Key facts
- Rocket stage.image
- Transtage_rocket_stage.jpg
- Rocket stage.caption
- A Transtage
- Rocket stage.country origin
- United States
- Rocket stage.manufacturer
- Martin Marietta
- Rocket stage.rockets
- Titan III
- Rocket/stage.name
- Engine details
- Rocket/stage.engines
- 2 AJ10-138
- Rocket/stage.thrust
- each
- Rocket/stage.fuel
- Aerozine 50 /
- Rocket/stage.burntime
- 440 seconds
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Transtage, given the United States Air Force designation SSB-10A, was an American upper stage used on Titan III rockets, developed by Martin Marietta and Aerojet.
==History== thumb|Artist's conception of a Titan III Transtage burn Transtage was developed in anticipation of a requirement to launch military payloads to geostationary orbit; a contract for development of the stage was issued on 20 August 1962. Transtage used a pressure-fed two-chamber configuration, using Aerozine 50 fuel and nitrogen tetroxide as oxidizer; the thrust chambers were gimbaled for steering and each produced of thrust. The design specification required up to three restarts during the first six hours of a mission.
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