The Atlas-Agena was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile. It was a member of the Atlas family of rockets, and was...
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Atlas-Agena and Atlas-Centaur satellite launch vehicles were also derived directly from the original Atlas. The Atlas-Centaur was evolved into the Atlas II...
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as Agena. The combined spacecraft was a 26-foot (7.92 m)-long cylinder with a diameter of 5 feet (1.52 m), placed into low Earth orbit with the Atlas-Agena...
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stage on the Atlas, Thor, Thorad and Titan IIIB rockets, and considered for others including the Space Shuttle and Atlas V. A total of 365 Agena rockets were...
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Rocketdyne (section Thor, Delta, Atlas)
Atlas B, Atlas C, Atlas LV-3C, Atlas D, Atlas-Agena, Atlas LV-3B LR105-3 LR105-5 - Atlas LV-3C, Atlas E, Atlas Agena B, Atlas F, Atlas Agena D, Atlas...
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spacecraft were manufactured by TRW and launched in pairs, either on an Atlas–Agena or Titan III-C boosters. They were placed in orbits of 118,000 km (73...
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electricity. SNAP-10A was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base by an ATLAS Agena D rocket on 3 April 1965 into a low Earth orbit altitude of approx. 1...
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early 1970s. While CORONA used the Thor-Agena launch vehicle family, GAMBIT would be launched on Atlas-Agena, the booster used for SAMOS. After the improved...
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 12 (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
Blue Origin. Atlas A, C and D missiles were tested from the site. It was also used for orbital launches of Atlas-Able and later Atlas-Agena rockets, and...
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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
14 August 1964, when a KH-7 satellite was launched by an Atlas-Agena D. After 27 Atlas-Agena launches, the last of which was on 4 June 1967, the complex...
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Burner-2". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved March 5, 2023. Krebs, Gunter D. "Atlas-SLV3B Agena-D"". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved March 5, 2023. "Centaur Program...
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of the Atlas-Agena. Previous Atlas-Agena launches were launched on Atlas D or Atlas SLV-3 first stages, but the final Atlas-Agena used an Atlas E/F.[citation...
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successful space launch vehicles, most notably Atlas Agena and Atlas Centaur. Mergers led to the acquisition of the Atlas Centaur line by the United Launch Alliance...
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geosynchronous orbit, to the Moon, Venus, or Mars with the Agena or Centaur upper stage. Atlas D was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at Launch...
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a communications satellite launched by NASA on April 6, 1967, on an Atlas-Agena D rocket from Cape Canaveral. The ATS-2 had the following objectives:...
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branches of the US military. The first three would be launched on an Atlas-Agena, then the remainder on Centaur. ADVENT never got off the drawing board...
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preselected areas. All of the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched by Atlas-Agena-D launch vehicles. The Lunar Orbiters had an imaging system which consisted...
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were launched from Cape Canaveral between June 1970 and April 1978 on Atlas-Agena D launch vehicles, all of which sported distinctive elongated payload...
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February 26, 1960 when MIDAS 1 lifted off on an Atlas-Agena A booster from LC-14 at Cape Canaveral. The Atlas completed its burn successfully, but during...
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Mariner 3 (category Spacecraft launched by Atlas-Agena rockets)
new Agena D stage would be used instead of the Agena B. Mariner 3 also utilized a new, larger fiberglass payload fairing. Of the two Atlas-Agena pads...
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 13 (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
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Force Base) at 20:34 GMT on 11 October 1960, using Atlas LV-3 Agena-A vehicle 57D and Agena 2101. The Atlas lifted smoothly and steered downrange, as the weather...
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existed in molecular form. OAO-1: Atlas-Agena D from Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral, Florida OAO-2, OAO-B and OAO-3: Atlas SLV-3C from Launch Complex 36...
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Titan IIIB (section Titan-3B Agena-D)
addition of an Agena upper stage. It consisted of five separate rockets. The Titan-3B Agena-D was a basic Titan IIIA with an Agena D upper stage. The...
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Thor (rocket family) (section Thor-Agena)
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 orbital...
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days. Space portal RM-81 Agena Thor-Agena Thorad-Agena Atlas-Agena Titan (rocket) Rocket engine using liquid fuel "Atlas Agena D SLV-3". Encyclopedia Astronautica...
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NASA oceanography satellite, on June 27, 1978, the last Atlas-Agena vehicle flown. The final Atlas F launch took place on June 23, 1981 when Missile 87F...
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Mariner 2 (category Spacecraft launched by Atlas-Agena rockets)
be launched on the Atlas-Centaur, but serious developmental problems with that vehicle forced a switch to the much smaller Agena B second stage. As such...
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