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OSO B suffered an incident during integration and checkout activities on April 14, 1964. The satellite was inside the Spin Test Facility at Cape Canaveral attached to the third stage of its Delta C booster when a technician accidentally ignited the booster through static electricity.
Delta 112 Thor 586 CCAFS SLC-17B OSO 8: Solar observation satellite LEO Success 1975-08-09 01:47 Delta 2913: Delta 113 Thor 602 VAFB SLC-2W COS-B: High-energy astronomy research satellite HEO Success 1975-09-09 05:30 N-I: N-1 (F) Tanegashima SLC-N KIKU-1: Technological demonstration satellite MEO Success First Japanese licensed built Delta ...
A Delta 2310 was the vehicle for the first three-satellite launch of NOAA-4, Intasat, and AMSAT-OSCAR 7 on 15 November 1974. [citation needed] Delta 2910 boosters were used to launch both Landsat 2 in 1975 and Landsat 3 in 1978. On 7 April 1978, a Delta 2914 launched "Yuri 1", the first Japanese BSE Broadcasting Satellite. [9]
OSO 7 was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral) on 29 September 1971 by a Delta N rocket into a 33.1° inclination, low-Earth (initially 321 by 572 km) orbit, and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 9 July 1974.
OSO 3 reentered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up on April 4, 1982. Like all the American Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) series satellites, it had two major segments: one, the "Sail", was stabilized to face the Sun, and carried both solar panels and Sun-pointing experiments for solar physics. The other, "Wheel" section, rotated to provide ...
The first stage was a Thor missile in the DSV-2A (MB-3-II) configuration, and the second stage was the Delta D (), which was derived from the earlier Delta. [1] The baseline Delta C used an Altair-2 (X-258) third stage, [1] whilst the Delta C1 had an FW-4D third stage, which provided a higher payload capacity than the Altair.
The Thor-Delta, also known as Delta DM-19 or just Delta was an early American expendable launch system used for 12 orbital launches in the early 1960s. A derivative of the Thor-Able , it was a member of the Thor family of rockets, and the first member of the Delta family.
The Delta 3000 series was an American expendable launch system which was used to conduct 38 orbital launches between 1975 and 1989. It was a member of the Delta family of rockets. Several variants existed, which were differentiated by a four digit numerical code .