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The earliest Agena variant was the Agena A in 1959–60, which did not have restart capability, mostly flown on Thor-Agena boosters for the Discoverer program.. The early Atlas LV3 Agena A variant was flown four times for the Midas and Samos programs (Midas 1, Midas 2, Samos 1, and Samos 2), with two failures.
Beta Centauri is a triple star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus.It is officially called Hadar (/ ˈ h eɪ d ɑːr /).The Bayer designation of Beta Centauri is Latinised from β Centauri, and abbreviated Beta Cen or β Cen.
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]
The first Agena-D launch was of KH-4 #7 on June 28, 1963, and a total of 269 Agena-Ds were launched. 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.
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: Moon Failure: Booster rocket malfunction caused spacecraft to be trapped in low Earth orbit. [5] 1962 January 26 US: Ranger 3: Atlas-Agena: Moon Failure: NASA's first attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon. A series of malfunctions caused spacecraft to hurtle past the Moon. [6] April 23 US: Ranger 4: Atlas-Agena: Moon Partial failure
Detail of Bayer's chart for Orion showing the belt stars and Orion Nebula region, with both Greek and Latin letter labels visible. A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.
Agena may refer to: Keiko Agena (1973), an American actress; Beta Centauri, a star; RM-81 Agena, a rocket upper stage family developed by Lockheed, especially the ...