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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of upper stages. Together with the Agena upper stage, Thor was the booster of the Thor-Agena vehicle used to launch the early Corona (also known as "Keyhole"...
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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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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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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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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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Thor DM-18 Agena A or just Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The rockets 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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Discoverer 1 (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
Discoverer 1 was the first of a series of satellites which were part of the CORONA reconnaissance satellite program. It was launched on a Thor-Agena A rocket...
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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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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2 (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
The East pad (SLC-2E, originally LC 75-1-1) was used for Delta, Thor-Agena and Thorad launches between 1966 and 1972 and has been demolished. The West...
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Thor DM-21 Agena-B or just Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The rockets used the Douglas-built Thor first stage and the Lockheed-built...
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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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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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Delta (rocket family) (redirect from Thor Delta)
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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CORONA (satellite) (category Military equipment introduced in the 1950s)
adapted for the KH-7 GAMBIT satellites, which took higher resolution photos. CORONA were launched by a Thor-Agena rocket, which used a Thor first stage...
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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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satellite launched at 04:48 UTC on November 29, 1965, by a Thor Agena rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California. It...
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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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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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84 m (2 ft 9 in) Burn time: 115 seconds. Thor (rocket family) Thor-Able Thor-Agena Thor-Delta Atlas-Able Thor-Ablestar Multistage rocket Three-stage-to-orbit...
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KH-7 Gambit (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
newer program into the early 1970s. While CORONA used the Thor-Agena launch vehicle family, GAMBIT would be launched on Atlas-Agena, the booster used for...
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XLR81 (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
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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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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2 was launched on a Thor Agena launch vehicle. In addition to passive communications experiments, it was used to investigate the dynamics of large spacecraft...
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Nuclear weapon (redirect from The Atomic Bomb)
of matter. The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). The first thermonuclear...
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SM-75/PGM-17A Thor Martin Marietta LCG-118A Peacekeeper Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I Martin Marietta SM-68B/LGM-25C Titan II Thor-Agena A Boeing...
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