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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 Canaveral LC-18B: Successful N/A Suborbital USAF: Test flight 9 May 1961 16:00 ...
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. The original Scout (a backronym for Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test system) was designed in 1957 at the NACA, at Langley ...
Launch Vehicle Mission Apogee Details 1960 April 18 Scout X: Cub Scout test Live first and third stages, broke up after first stage burnout. 1960 July 2 Scout X-1: Test mission 1380 km Failure. 1960 October 4 Scout X-1 Radiation Probe Plasma mission 5600 km 1960 December 4 Scout X-1 Explorer (9) S 56 Second stage malfunction. 1961 February 16 ...
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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.
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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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.