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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 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.
[16] [17] This was P35-2, the earlier P35-1 launch on 24 May 1962 had failed to reach orbit. [18] All five Program 35 launch attempts using Scout launch vehicle, including the two successes, were made from Vandenberg SLC-5. Other early launches were conducted using Thor-Burner launch vehicles, with Altair or Burner II upper stages.
Space Launch Complex 5 (SLC-5) was a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. It was previously part of the Point Arguello Naval Air Station, during which time it was designated Launch Complex D or LC-D. Constructed in 1961, it was used by 69 Scout launch vehicles between 1962 and 1994.
Blue Scout Jr ERCS Test Launches [13] Date Launch Vehicle Location Apogee Notes 31 May 1962: Blue Scout Jr SLV-1C: Vandenberg AFB, LC-A: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) 24 July 1962: Blue Scout Jr SLV-1C: Vandenberg AFB, LC-A: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) 21 November 1962: Blue Scout Jr SLV-1C: Vandenberg AFB, LC-A: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) 2 February ...
Daniel Maine Jr., a Winchendon scout, has chosen to honor local military families for his Eagle Scout project. What he did and when you can see it Winchendon Eagle Scout's project honors military ...
At the military base are several Space Launch Complexes (SLC) used for launching payloads into polar orbits, with some of them currently active and more slated for future reactivation. Additionally, there are dozens of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Launch Facilities (LF) at Vandenberg used for testing the missiles over the Pacific .
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