The Agena Target Vehicle (/əˈdʒiːnə/; ATV), also known as Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle (GATV), was an uncrewed spacecraft used by NASA during its Gemini...
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satellite. The Agena Target Vehicle was based around the Agena-D, with equipment fitted to support use as a rendezvous and docking target for missions conducted...
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Constellation, until that program's cancellation in October 2010. The Agena target vehicle (ATV) was used for testing Earth orbit rendezvous in the NASA Gemini...
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which meant that destruct of the Agena was no longer possible following staging. The Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle had a specially modified Range Safety...
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(first orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it 1 hour 34 minutes after launch; used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a record...
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Gemini 8 (section Agena docking)
months earlier, NASA had launched an Agena Target Vehicle for Gemini 6, but the Atlas-Agena launch failed when the Agena's engine exploded during orbital injection...
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Gemini 9A (section Target vehicle launch)
mission's Agena Target Vehicle was destroyed after a launch failure. The mission was flown June 3–6, 1966, after launch of the backup Augmented Target Docking...
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successfully docked with the Agena, achieving the fifth space rendezvous and fourth space docking with an Agena target vehicle. Lovell then successfully...
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Project Gemini (section Launch vehicle)
Center for flight control. The project also used the Agena target vehicle, a modified Atlas-Agena upper stage, used to develop and practice orbital rendezvous...
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It also achieved the fifth rendezvous and fourth docking with an Agena target vehicle. Gemini XII marked a successful conclusion of the Gemini program...
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minutes later, the uncrewed Atlas-Agena target vehicle was launched. After a successful burn of the Atlas booster, the Agena's engine fired to separate it from...
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a target vehicle, and fly the spacecraft and target vehicle together using gravity-gradient stabilization, perform docked maneuvers using the Agena propulsion...
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docking with an Agena Target Vehicle (ATV), and EVA. It was also planned to dock with the ATV from the Gemini 8 mission. This Agena's battery power had...
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especially the Agena target vehicle used in preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions AMD K10, a processor codenamed "Agena" Aegina (disambiguation)...
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Atlas (rocket family) (redirect from Atlas (launch vehicle))
throughout the mid-1960s to launch the Agena Target Vehicles used during the Gemini program. Beginning in 1960, the Agena upper stage, powered by hypergolic...
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10's target vehicle, the mission would still launch and attempt a rendezvous with Gemini 8's target vehicle.: 342–344 The Agena target vehicle was launched...
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spacecraft, the Agena Target Vehicle. The system was also used to push the spacecraft away from the spent second stage of the Titan II launch vehicle on first...
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proposals ranged from reusing the docking systems developed for the Agena target vehicle on more powerful upper stages such as the Centaur, which could propel...
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Artificial gravity (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
to produce artificial gravity by rotating the capsule around the Agena Target Vehicle to which it was attached by a 36-meter tether. They were able to...
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reaching orbit, it was about 860 nautical miles (1,600 km) behind the Agena target vehicle, which had been launched 100 minutes earlier. A rendezvous was achieved...
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Azerbaijan TV All-terrain vehicle, for off-road use Advanced Technology Vessel, Indian nuclear submarine project Agena target vehicle, a booster system used...
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Docking and berthing of spacecraft (redirect from Automated/Autonomous Rendezvous & Docking Vehicle)
the command of Wally Schirra, with an uncrewed Agena Target Vehicle in October 1965, but the Agena vehicle exploded during launch. On the revised mission...
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uncrewed Agena Target Vehicle. Gemini 6 was to have been the first docking mission, but had to be cancelled when that mission's Agena vehicle was destroyed...
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docking with an Agena target vehicle. On October 25, 1965, Schirra and Stafford were inside Gemini 6 before liftoff when the Agena vehicle exploded on ascent...
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1965. Gemini 8 achieved the first space docking with an uncrewed Agena Target Vehicle on March 16, 1966. Gemini 8 was also the first US spacecraft to experience...
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nuclear ICBM and as the orbital launch vehicle for Project Mercury and the remote-controlled Agena Target Vehicle used in Project Gemini. The period from...
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the Agena Target Vehicle on the Atlas-Agena from LC-14, to develop rendezvous and docking, critical for Apollo. Two of the Atlas-Agena vehicles failed...
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with the Gemini spacecraft, Titan II and Atlas boosters, and the Agena target vehicle. Jungle survival training was conducted at the USAF Tropic Survival...
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Scott, Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with an Agena target vehicle. March 20 – Football's FIFA World Cup Trophy is stolen while on exhibition...
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Scott, Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with an Agena target vehicle. March 31 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes...
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