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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.
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 ...
Orbital launches; First: 13 January: Last: 22 December: Total: 81: Successes: 65: Failures: 15: Partial failures: 1: Catalogued: 72: National firsts; Spaceflight Turkey Norway Lebanon Pakistan: Satellite United Kingdom Canada: Rockets; Maiden flights: Delta A Delta B Scout X-2 Scout X-2M Scout X-3 Thor DM-21 Agena-D Vostok-2: Retirements: Scout ...
The facility was first built as a design and construction test for a mission-firing silo. Later, it became the Titan II Operations and Maintenance Missile Trainer (QMT). [7] [11] LC-A formerly Launch Complex A, Naval Missile Facility, Point Arguello (PALC-A).
A new rocket developed by United Launch Alliance launches the Peregrine lunar lander on the first moon landing mission from the United States in 52 years.
A mission called Crew-9, destined to return the Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck in space months longer than expected, has lifted off from Florida. SpaceX launches mission that aims to return ...
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]