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Blue Scout I: D-3 Cape Canaveral LC-18B: Successful N/A Suborbital USAF: Test flight 16 February 1961 13:05 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 ...
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.
Launch Area 3 contains two launch pads, Area 3 and Area 3A. Area 3, also known as the Mk.I launcher, was used by eighteen Scout rockets between 1960 and 1964. The first launch from the complex, on 18 April 1960, was the maiden flight of the Scout launch vehicle, using the Scout X configuration. The last Scout launch from the pad occurred on 6 ...
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Scout X-1 was flown seven times between August 1960 and October 1961 from Launch Area 3 at the Wallops Flight Facility. [1] [2]The maiden flight was a suborbital test of the rocket's systems, and was conducted on 2 July 1960, with the rocket launching at 00:04 GMT.
Scout: 4 [4] United States: NACA ... List of space launch system designs; List of orbital launch systems; References This page was last ... Cookie statement; Mobile ...
Space Launch Complex 5 (SLC-5) was a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. It was previously part of the Point Arguello Naval Air Station, during which time it was designated Launch Complex D or LC-D. Constructed in 1961, it was used by 69 Scout launch vehicles between 1962 and 1994.
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