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    Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The launch vehicles used the Douglas-built Thor first stage and the Lockheed-built Agena second stages...
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    KH-6 Lanyard (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
    launched from Vandenberg AFB aboard a Thor-Agena D launch vehicle (Thor 360) at 00:00:00 GMT on 18 March 1963. It was the first of three KH-6 LANYARD launches...
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    and the Agena Target Vehicle used to demonstrate rendezvous and docking during Project Gemini. It was used as an upper stage on the Atlas, Thor, Thorad...
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    Thor DM-18 Agena or just Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The launch vehicles used the Douglas-built Thor first stage and the Lockheed-built...
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    Thor DM-21 Agena-D or just Thor-Agena was an orbital launch vehicle. The launch vehicles used the Douglas-built Thor first stage and the Lockheed-built...
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    Thorad-Agena was an American expendable launch system, derived from the Thor and Delta rockets. The first stage of the rocket was a stretched Thor variant...
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  • Thor DM-18 Able launches List of Thor-Agena launches List of Thor DM-18 Agena-A launches List of Thor DM-21 Agena-B launches List of Thor DM-21 Agena-D...
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  • (190 km) polar circular orbits. The Thorad-Agena (pictured) was developed from Thor. It used a Long Tank Thor to launch an Agena-D upper stage. Comparison of...
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    Base). The earliest Agena variant was the Agena A in 1959–60, which did not have restart capability, mostly flown on Thor-Agena boosters for the Discoverer...
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    DM-18A launches Strategic Air Command Thor (rocket family) Thor-Able Thor-Agena Thor-Delta "Thor Missile Deployment in the UK | Harrington Museum". Harrington...
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    Nimbus program (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    launched aboard Thor-Agena rockets (Nimbus 1–4) and Delta rockets (Nimbus 5–7). Over a 20-year period from the launch of the first satellite, the Nimbus series...
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    Titan IIIB (category Military equipment introduced in the 1960s)
    rockets. The Titan-3B Agena-D was a basic Titan IIIA with an Agena D upper stage. The Titan 23B was a basic Titan II with an Agena upper stage, and the Titan...
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  • are for the mass of the payload in cargo bay of the spaceplanes, excluding the mass of the spaceplanes themselves. The SpaceX website lists the F9 payload...
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    1960. Thor-Able 127 with Pioneer 0 (17 August 1958) Thor-Able 130 with Pioneer 1 (10 October 1958) Thor-Able 129 with Pioneer 2 (8 November 1958) Thor-Able...
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    The Thor-Ablestar, or Thor-Able-Star, also known as Thor-Epsilon was an early American expendable launch system consisting of a PGM-17 Thor missile, with...
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  • were 79 Thor missiles launched, of which 51 were successful, giving a 64.5% success rate. 10 20 30 40 50 1957 '58 '59   Thor DM   Thor-Agena 10 20 30...
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    Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 1 (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    SLC-1W. Both sites were built in 1958 for the never activated 75th Strategic Missile Squadron for Thor-Agena A launches. SLC-1E launch pad 75-3-5, SLC-1W...
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  • applied to the NOSS/Whitecloud reconnaissance satellites. GGSE-4 was launched by the U.S. Airforce from Vandenberg Air Force Base atop a Thor Agena-D rocket...
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    Samos (satellite) (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
    that due to its larger mass would be launched on the Atlas-Agena booster instead of the Thor-Agena. While CORONA took photographs and returned them to...
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    is in the public domain. Kruse, Richard. "Thor and Delta Rockets Overview". Historic Spacecraft. Retrieved 8 March 2020. Kyle, Ed. "Thor-Agena A and B:...
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    Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3 (category Launch complexes of the United States Space Force)
    4 5 6 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995   Atlas-Agena   Atlas   Thorad-Agena   Thor-Agena Canyon Fire (2016) – 2016 wildfire in Southern California...
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    KH-5 Argon (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
    failure. The satellite was manufactured by Lockheed. Launches used Thor-Agena launch vehicles flying from Vandenberg Air Force Base, with the payload being...
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    Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    were conducted using Thor-Burner launch vehicles, with Altair or Burner II upper stages. Program 35 had by this time been renamed the Data Acquisition and...
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    accuracy of a complete global polyhedron. The PAGEOS spacecraft was launched by a Thor-SLV2A Agena-D (Thor 473) on 24 June 1966,[better source needed]...
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  • SURCAL (category Spacecraft launched by Thor rockets)
    as the SURCAL 150B and SURCAL 160 target objects as part of the SURCAL program. Krebs, Gunter D. "Surcal 1". Gunter's Space Page. Archived from the original...
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    mentor outreach astronomer J.D. Armstrong of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), used data from the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO)...
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  • are for the mass of the payload in cargo bay of the spaceplanes, excluding the mass of the spaceplanes themselves. The SpaceX website lists the F9 payload...
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    The Timation satellites were conceived, developed, and launched by the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. beginning in 1964....
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  • The final half-decade of launches in the Thor/Delta family consisted of one Delta IV Heavy each year from 2020 through 2024. This followed the retirement...
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    SOLRAD (category Military equipment introduced in the 1960s)
    by the US Navy in a program to continuously monitor the Sun. SOLRAD was the Naval Research Laboratory's first post-Vanguard satellite. Until the Kennedy...
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