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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 and reentry profiles: A-C: launch; D: orbital insertion; E-K: reentry and landing. On an orbital mission, the Atlas' rocket engines were ignited four seconds before lift-off. The launch vehicle was held to the ground by clamps and then released when sufficient thrust was built up at lift-off (A). [186]
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]
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 ...
Launch spacecraft Habitation Return spacecraft Brief mission summary 1 Yuri Gagarin: 12 April 1961 Vostok 1: First crewed spaceflight. Reached Low Earth Orbit (LEO), flew around the Earth one time. 2 Alan Shepard (1) 5 May 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 : First American crewed spaceflight. Did not reach Earth orbit, maximum altitude: 187 km (116 miles).
Sharing a ride inside the Falcon 9 rocket’s cargo bay is a 7.5-foot-tall (2.3-meter-tall) lunar lander from Tokyo-based Ispace. Wednesday’s launch kicked off the company’s second attempt to ...
Mercury-Scout 1, or MS-1, was a United States spacecraft intended to test tracking stations for Project Mercury flights. [1] [2] It grew out of a May 5, 1961 NASA proposal to use Scout rockets to launch small satellites to evaluate the worldwide Mercury Tracking Network in preparation for crewed orbital missions.