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The Atlas-Agena was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile. It was a member of the Atlas family of rockets, and was launched 109 times between 1960 and 1978. [ 1 ] It was used to launch the first five Mariner uncrewed probes to the planets Venus and Mars , and the Ranger and Lunar Orbiter uncrewed probes to ...
It was used as an upper stage on the Atlas, Thor, Thorad and Titan IIIB rockets, and considered for others including the Space Shuttle [2] and Atlas V. A total of 365 Agena rockets were launched between February 28, 1959 [3] and February 1987. Only 33 Agenas carried NASA payloads and the vast majority were for DoD programs.
The first launch to use what is now SLC-4 occurred on 12 July 1963, when an Atlas LV-3 Agena-D launched the first KH-7 Gambit reconnaissance satellite, from PALC-2-3. Twelve Atlas-Agenas launches were conducted from PALC-2-3, with the last occurring on 12 March 1965.
X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas #1–2, Avengers vs. Atlas #1–4, Thunderbolts #138-140 July 2010 978-0785147725: Atlas: Return of the Three Dimensional Man: Atlas #1–5 and material from The Incredible Hercules #138–141 December 2010 978-0785146964: War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas: War of The Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1-4 September ...
This is a list of launches made by the Atlas rocket family, derived from the SM-65 Atlas ICBM. The currently operational variant, Atlas V, has flown 81 consecutive missions without failure between October 2007 and January 2022. Due to the size of the list, it has been split by decade: List of Atlas launches (1957–1959)
Ranger 5 was a Block II Ranger spacecraft similar to Ranger 3 and Ranger 4.The basic vehicle was 3.1 m high and consisted of a lunar capsule covered with a balsawood impact-limiter, 65 cm in diameter, a mono-propellant mid-course motor, a retrorocket with a thrust of 5,080 lbf (22.6 kN), and a gold and chrome plated hexagonal base 1.5 m in diameter.
Ranger 6 was a lunar probe in the NASA Ranger program, a series of robotic spacecraft of the early and mid-1960s to obtain close-up images of the Moon's surface.It was launched on January 30, 1964 and was designed to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar terrain during the final minutes of flight until impacting the surface.
Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. [12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive. [13]