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...

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...

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...

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...

launch pedestal. 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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

were launched from Cape Canaveral between June 1970 and April 1978 on Atlas-Agena D launch vehicles, all of which sported distinctive elongated payload...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

for a five-year lease. 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 1960 1965 1970 1975   Atlas-Agena   Atlas 1 2 3 4 5 6 2015 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24   Falcon 9 Success...

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...

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...

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...

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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was the launch site of the Mars lander InSight in May 2018. One of two Atlas-Agena pads at VAFB, SLC-3E was originally the designated facility for MIDAS...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...