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Scout G-1: S206C San Marco: Successful San Marco 5: Low Earth: ASI: Atmospheric Research 26 April 1988 01:57 Scout G-1: S211C Vandenberg SLC-5: Successful Transit-O 23 Transit-O 32: Low Earth: USAF: Navigation 16 June 1988 06:54 Scout G-1: S213C Vandenberg SLC-5: Successful Nova 2: Low Earth: USAF: Navigation 25 August 1988 06:59 Scout G-1 ...
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 ...
Lists of rocket launches List of Ariane launches; List of Atlas launches; List of Black Brant launches; List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches; List of Long March launches; List of Proton launches; List of R-7 launches; List of Scout launches; List of Space Launch System launches; List of Thor and Delta launches; List of Titan launches ...
The Mars Scout Program was a NASA initiative to send a series of small, low-cost robotic missions to Mars, competitively selected from proposals by the scientific community. Each Scout project was to cost less than US$485 million. The Phoenix lander and MAVEN orbiter were selected and developed before the program was retired in 2010. [98]
The launch history of NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) since the program formed in 1998 at Kennedy Space Center. The launch of NASA robotic missions occurred from a number of launch sites on a variety of rockets. After the list of launches are descriptions of select historic LSP missions. [1] [2]
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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.