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Aviation History
1964
1964 - 1413.PDF
FLIGHT International, 7 May 1964 Missiles and Spaceflight BOLKOW'S SPACE PROJECTS Above, the high-energy Ophos IE rocket which would use liquid hydrogen and fluorine and which Bolkow envisages as a second stage to be used with the US Thor booster Right, the German proposal to meet the ESRO requirement for an astro- nomical satellite. This has been put forward jointly by DVL and Bolkow. Two telescopes would investigate the ranges 1,000-2,000 and 1,800- 3,000 Angstrom units Above left, Bolkow's 625A scientific satellite, to be developed jointly with an American firm. Above, seen attached to an Ophos upper stage, the larger 62SB scientific spacecraft devised by Bolkow in collaboration with Deutschen Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DVL) In addition to its present work in collaboration with ERNO on the third stage of the European Launcher Development Organiz- ation's satellite launcher Europa 1, Bolkow-Entwicklungen KG of Munich is active on a number of future space projects. Details of the more important of these were released at the Hanover Show and are illustrated on these pages. Devised originally as a high-energy third stage for the ELDO vehicle, the Ophos IE project (left) is now proposed by the company as a second stage to be fitted to Thor rockets which West Germany might purchase for her national space programme from the USA. Using liquid hydrogen and fluorine in the Ophos IE, the Thor-Ophos combination could place l,4OO-2,500kg in low (200km) Earth orbit or 2OO-5OOkg on a deep-space trajectory. Three of the company's satellite projects are depicted on this page. Known as 625A, a small scientific satellite (above left) has been designed by Bolkow and is expected to be developed in collaboration with a US company. This craft would make geo- physical and solar-radiation measurements and, it is envisaged, could be launched by a Scout B vehicle in 1966. (No approach to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has yet been made by the West German Government for a co-operative satellite project.) The West German proposal to meet ESRO's requirement for an astronomical satellite has been put forward jointly by DVL and Bolkow, and is now being evaluated (together with designs from
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