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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 original Scout (a backronym for Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test system) was designed in 1957 at the NACA, at Langley center. Scout launch vehicles were used from 1961 until 1994. To enhance reliability the development team opted to use "off the shelf" hardware, originally produced for military programs. According to the NASA fact sheet:
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 November 1964. On 7 March 1970, a Nike-Apache and four Nike-Iroquois rockets were launched from the complex. The upgraded Launch Area 3A, or Mk.II launcher ...
The first orbital launch attempt, with the S-56 satellite, was made on 4 December 1960, and ended in failure after the second stage malfunctioned. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On 16 February 1961, a Scout X-1 successfully placed Explorer 9 , a reflight of the failed S-56, into Earth orbit, in the first successful orbital launch to be conducted by a Scout rocket.
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First Rocket Lab Electron launch, first launch from outside the United States (New Zealand), and first launch procured under NRO's Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) program. Flew on Rocket Lab's "Birds of a Feather" mission. L-162 [147] (RASR-3) USA-334 13 July 2022 06:30 Mahia, LC-1A: Electron: Entered service, presumed active RASR-3.
The RM-90 Blue Scout II was an American sounding rocket and expendable launch system which was flown three times during 1961. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was a member of the Scout family of rockets. [ 4 ] Blue Scout II was a military version of the NASA -operated Scout X-1 , with adjustments to the payload fairings, engine nozzles and fins.
The Scout X had the same configuration as the Scout X-1, which would be the first all-up version of the Scout. Unlike the X-1, which had four live stages, the Scout X only had live first and third stages, with battleship mockups of the second and fourth. It was launched from Launch Area 3 at the Wallops Flight Facility at 23:09 GMT on 18 April ...