The PGM-17A Thor was the first operative ballistic missile of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was named after the Norse god of thunder. It was deployed...
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PGM-17 may refer to: PGM-17 Thor, the first operational ballistic missile in the US arsenal. USS PGM-17, a US Navy gunboat during World War 2. This disambiguation...
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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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Thor was a US space launch vehicle derived from the PGM-17 Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile. The Thor rocket was the first member of the Delta...
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1956 for use with the PGM-17 Thor missile, the first operational ballistic missile in the arsenal of the United States. More recently the launch complex...
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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2 (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
used by the PGM-17 Thor and several of its derivatives from 1958 to 1972, and SLC-2W (originally LC 75-1-2), which is currently used by the Firefly Alpha...
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Vandenberg Space Force Base (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
personnel on the PGM-17 Thor, SM-65 Atlas, and HGM-25A Titan I missiles, while also serving as an emergency operational facility for the Atlas. The 1957 launch...
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Look up Thor or thor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Thor is a Germanic god associated with thunder. Thor may also refer to: Thor in comics, various...
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bomb (1958–1976) W35 for SM-65 Atlas ICBM, HGM-25A Titan I ICBM, PGM-17 Thor IRBM, and PGM-19 Jupiter MRBM (cancelled 1958) W37 (cancelled 1956) W38 for...
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392d Combat Training Squadron (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
primarily for Royal Air Force launch crews, on the PGM-17 Thor missile at Vandenberg from 1958 to 1963. The two squadrons were consolidated in 1985 and activated...
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The PGM-19 Jupiter was the first nuclear armed, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was a liquid-propellant...
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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 10 (category Launch complexes of the United States Space Force)
military operators of PGM-17 Thor ballistic missiles, and to conduct missile launch tests. The first launches were conducted by the British Royal Air Force...
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RAF Folkingham (category Airfields of the IX Troop Carrier Command in the United Kingdom)
the late 1950s and early 1960s, the RAF Bomber Command used Folkingham as a PGM-17 Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) base. Today the remains...
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Rocketdyne S-3D (category Rocket engines of the United States)
level. The S-3 was based on the Redstone engine, and is part of LR79 family, used on the PGM-19 Jupiter and PGM-17 Thor missiles, and on the Juno II...
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This is a list of launches made by the PGM-17 Thor IRBM, and its derivatives, including the Delta family and the Japanese N-I, N-II and H-I rockets which...
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RAF Ludford Magna (category Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom)
until the mid-1950s when it was reactivated as a Cold War base for PGM-17 Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs). The station closed in the early...
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discovered a chemical element that he named after Thor – thorium. Thor is also the namesake of the PGM-17 Thor missile. In 1962, American comic book artist...
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dual key systems to enable the warheads. PGM-17 Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles were forward deployed to the UK with RAF crews. An extended...
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 18 (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
rocket, and LC-18B, which was originally by the US Air Force used for tests of the PGM-17 Thor missile. The first launch from LC-18 was a Viking rocket...
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Nuclear weapon (redirect from The Atomic Bomb)
that the Pentagon revealed the loss of the one-megaton bomb. January 17, 1966: the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash occurred when a B-52G bomber of the USAF...
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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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SM-64 Navaho (category Cruise missiles of the Cold War)
versions of the Atlas, PGM-11 Redstone, PGM-17 Thor, PGM-19 Jupiter, Mercury-Redstone, and the Juno series; it is therefore the direct ancestor of the engines...
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Delta (rocket family) (redirect from Thor Delta)
the PGM-17 Thor, the first ballistic missile deployed by the United States Air Force (USAF), as their first stage. The Thor had been designed in the mid-1950s...
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RAF Catfoss (category Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom)
1959 as a site for the PGM-17 Thor ballistic missile. It closed again in 1963. Catfoss was originally used as a grass airfield in the 1930s. On 1 January...
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the range over the ICBM threshold. The range definition used here is used within the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. The progenitor for the IRBM was the...
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Thor was a US space launch vehicle derived from the PGM-17 Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile. The Thor rocket was the first member of the Delta...
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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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Johnston Atoll (redirect from Johnston Atoll in the Second World War)
either in support of the nuclear bomb tests or in experimental antisatellite technology. Eight PGM-17 Thor missiles deployed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF)...
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1940s MX-774 (1946) "The United States Army | Redstone Arsenal Historical Information". history.redstone.army.mil. United States Army. Retrieved 8 October...
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Breighton Aerodrome (category Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom)
Emily, the base was a launch site for three nuclear-armed PGM-17 Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles, operated by No. 240 Squadron RAF. The base...
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