Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The result was the Atlas LV-3 Agena D, a standardized version of the Atlas D core and Agena B which would be the same on every launch (at least as far as the Atlas was concerned, Agena Ds often still had customized setups, especially for DoD payloads). The Agena D first flew in July 1963, starting a series of 15 successful launches for NASA and ...
The Agena-D was used to launch KH-7 GAMBIT and KH-8 Gambit 3 reconnaissance satellites, three Mariner probes to Venus and the two Mariner space probes to Mars. Thor-Agena flew for the last time in 1972 when it launched a KH-4B satellite. The last Atlas-Agena used an Agena D stage atop a refurbished Atlas F missile to launch Seasat in 1978 ...
The combined spacecraft was a 26-foot (7.92 m)-long cylinder with a diameter of 5 feet (1.52 m), placed into low Earth orbit with the Atlas-Agena launch vehicle. It carried about 14,000 pounds (6,400 kg) of propellant and gas at launch, [2] and had a gross mass at orbital insertion of about 7,200 pounds (3,300 kg).
The Atlas-Agena and Atlas-Centaur satellite launch vehicles were also derived directly from the original Atlas. The Atlas-Centaur was evolved into the Atlas II, various models of which were launched 63 times between 1991 and 2004.
Agena RSO charges accidentally fired at staging, leading to vehicle breakup. First launch of the Atlas-Agena vehicle. 1960-03-08 13:10 Atlas D 42D CCAFS LC-11: ICBM test Suborbital Success 1960-03-11 00:36 Atlas D 51D CCAFS LC-13: ICBM test Suborbital Failure Combustion instability in B-1 engine. Missile fell back onto the pad and exploded ...
A KH-7 launch on Atlas-Agena.. BYEMAN codenamed GAMBIT, the KH-7 (Air Force Program 206) was a reconnaissance satellite used by the United States from July 1963 to June 1967. . Like the older CORONA system, it acquired imagery intelligence by taking photographs and returning the undeveloped film to ea
The standard Atlas-Agena vehicle is best known for launching the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) in support of the Gemini 9A mission. This occurred on 1 June 1966, and was the first flight of the Atlas SLV-3 as an independent vehicle. [6] The ATDA failed because the payload shroud did not detach. [7]
Final flight of standard Atlas-Agena 1978-05-13 10:34 Atlas E/F-SVS: 49F VAFB SLC-3E: GPS-2: Navigation satellite MEO: Success 1978-05-20 13:13:00 Atlas-Centaur SLV-3D AC-50 CCAFS LC-36A: Pioneer Venus Orbiter: Venus probe Heliocentric: Success 1978-06-27 01:12 Atlas E/F-Agena D: 23F VAFB SLC-3W: Seasat: Remote sensing LEO: Success Final Atlas ...