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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 ...
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 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.
ATS-2 (Applications Technology Satellite) was a communications satellite launched by NASA on April 6, 1967, on an Atlas-Agena D rocket from Cape Canaveral. Objectives [ edit ]
Atlas E/F-Agena D: 23F VAFB SLC-3W: Seasat: Remote sensing LEO: Success Final Atlas-Agena flight, using a modified Atlas F missile. 1978-06-29 22:24:59 Atlas-Centaur SLV-3D AC-41 CCAFS LC-36B: Comstar D3: Comsat GTO: Success 1978-08-08 07:33 Atlas-Centaur SLV-3D AC-51 CCAFS LC-36A: Pioneer Venus Multiprobe: Venus probe Heliocentric: Success ...
Atlas-Agena B LV-3 112D VAFB SLC-3E Samos 6: Optical reconnaissance LEO: Success 1962-03-24 00:39 Atlas D 134D VAFB 576B2: ICBM test Suborbital Success Launch witnessed by President Kennedy: 1962-04-09 15:04 Atlas-Agena B LV-3 110D VAFB SLC-3E MIDAS 5: Missile warning MEO: Partial failure Improper pitch program results in incorrect orbit. 1962 ...
The Agena Target Vehicle (/ ə ˈ dʒ iː n ə /; ATV), also known as Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle (GATV), was an uncrewed spacecraft used by NASA during its Gemini program to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques, and to perform large orbital changes, in preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions. [1]