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The Scout family of rockets were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the first orbital launch vehicle to be entirely composed of solid fuel stages. It was also the only vehicle of that type until the successful launch of the Japanese Lambda 4S in 1970.
Scout X-1: ST-4 Wallops LA-3: Successful Explorer 9: Low Earth: NASA: Technology 3 March 1961 16:02 Blue Scout II: D-4 Cape Canaveral LC-18B: Successful N/A Suborbital USAF: Test flight 12 April 1961 06:07 Blue Scout II: D-5 Cape Canaveral LC-18B: Successful N/A Suborbital USAF: Test flight 9 May 1961 16:00 Blue Scout I: D-6 Cape Canaveral LC ...
Dual Air Density Explorer was a set of 2 satellites, DADE-A and DADE-B, released as part of NASA's Explorer program. DADE-A and DADE-B was launched on 6 December 1975 at 03:35:01 UTC, [1] by a Scout F-1 launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The launch of the DADE satellites failed. [2] [3]
DMSP was initially known as Program 35. The first successful launch of a Program 35 spacecraft used a Scout X-2 rocket lifting off from Point Arguello near Vandenberg Space Force Base on 23 August 1962. [18] [19] This was P35-2, the earlier P35-1 launch on 24 May 1962 had failed to reach orbit. [20]
She contributed to the space program through her work on the Scout Launch Vehicle Program. [11] A blog describing her work at NASA is on the Science Museum group website [13] Vaughan continued after NASA, the successor agency, was established in 1958. When NACA became NASA, segregated facilities, including the West Computing office, were abolished.
They were used to develop the launch vehicles, launch escape system, spacecraft and tracking network. [222] One flight of a Scout rocket attempted to launch a specialized satellite equipped with Mercury communications components for testing the ground tracking network, but the booster failed soon after liftoff. The Little Joe program used seven ...
The Italian launch team, trained by NASA, was to first launch a rocket from Wallops Island under NASA supervision and first launch successfully took off on 15 December 1964. The San Marco project was focused on the launching of scientific satellites by Scout launch vehicles from a mobile rigid platform located close to the equator.
Later versions for Scout D scaled to 1.14 m (45 in) in diameter. Algol 1-A. Used on the Scout X (Cub Scout) test flight flown April 18, 1960. served as prototype vehicle for eventual Scout rocket. Algol 1-B. Used on Scout X-1, RM-89 Blue Scout I, and RM-90 Blue Scout II. Algol 1-C. Used on the Scout X-1A. After this single flight, the Scout X-2 ...