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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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    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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    Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2 (category Launch complexes of the United States Space Force)
    Thor   Thor-Agena   Thor-Ablestar   Thor-Delta   Delta II   Firefly Alpha   MLV 1 2 3 4 5 6 1960 1965 1970   Thor   Thor-Agena   Thor-Ablestar   Thor-Delta...
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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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    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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    Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 1 (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    the never activated 75th Strategic Missile Squadron for launches of the Thor-Agena to support the CORONA series of reconnaissance satellites for the CIA...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Vandenberg LC 75-3-5 by a Thor-Agena rocket, the satellite was lost when its carrying Agena failed to reach orbit.: 54  As a result of the loss of Discoverers...
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  • Rocketdyne (category Aerospace companies of the United States)
    Navaho G-26 XLR89-1 - Atlas A LR79-7 - Thor, Delta, Thor-Able, Thor-Agena A, Thor Agena B, Thor Agena D, Thor-Burner S-3D - Jupiter XLR89-1 - Atlas A...
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  • 1940s MX-774 (1946) "The United States Army". history.redstone.army.mil. United States Army. Retrieved 8 October 2021. "JUNO I FACT SHEET". spaceline...
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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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    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 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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  • 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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    Discoverer 14 (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
    orbital tracking techniques for the Transit navigational satellite program. Launched into a polar orbit by a Thor-Agena A booster on 18 August 1960 at...
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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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    Nimbus program (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    launched aboard Thor-Agena rockets (Nimbus 1–4) and Delta rockets (Nimbus 5–7). Over a 20-year period from the launch of the first satellite, the Nimbus series...
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    Nike Hercules Thor (rocket family) PGM-17 Thor Thor-Able Thor-Ablestar Thor-Agena Thorad-Agena Thor DSV-2 Thor DSV-2U Thor-Burner Thor-Delta LIM-49 Spartan...
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