Скачать или смотреть Centaur-Surveyor Nose Faring Separation Test

The Space Power Chambers facility at NASA's Lewis Research Center was used to test the nose faring system for the Atlas/Centaur-4 mission in a vacuum space environment. The first of twelve tests were run on August 5, 1964 at a simulated altitude of seventy miles. During the jettisoning of the faring, the deflector bulkheads, which was designed to block excess pressure from injuring the payload during separation, were ripped from their bindings, and the shroud tips were broken off above the catcher pads. This film contains footage of the shroud separation from several angles, close-up of the payload adapter, and a view of the separation from beneath the shroud.