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... of nuclear particles ." ''(NYT, 4/13/65)'' "Award of the $40 million contract for 28 Atlas SLV-3s reflects plans by the Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to use the Atlas in a variety of future space missions," Robert Zimmerman said in an article in the ... be installed on the basic booster as requirements for the mission may dictate, "Before the Atlas was standardized into the SLV-3 it would take a year to 18 months to ...

... to launch the Applications Technology Satellites (ATS) ; the other two, also to be boosted by Atlas launch vehicles, would be used for the third and fourth Orbiting Astronomical Observatories ( Orbiting Astronomical ... OAO ). Lockheed would design, develop, and fabricate equipment and match the Agena s with the Atlas boosters and the spacecraft. ''(NASA Release 65-199)'' ComSatCorp was authorized by FCC to begin ...

... in the Gemini program, Simultaneous countdown of both the Titan II - GEMINI VI and the Atlas-Agena had been developed to maximize launch reliability for a "same day" launch ... liftoff was at 10:00:04 EST. The Agena Target Vehicle separated from the Atlas at 10:05:12 with all sequences and parameters nominal at separation. Following a nominal ...

NASA's SURVEYOR III (Surveyor C) was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Atlas-Centaur (AC-12) booster on 65-hr lunar intercept trajectory. Primary mission for the 2 ... OSSA Lunar and Planetary Programs Div.; project management was assigned to Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ; Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle was managed by Lewis Research Center ; and prime contractor for spacecraft development ...

... 's MARINER V (Mariner E) spacecraft was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Atlas-Agena D booster on four-month, 212-million-mi Venus flyby mission-NASA's only ... , mission operations, and tracking and data acquisition were assigned to Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ; and Atlas-Agena launch vehicle was managed by Lewis Research Center . ''(NASA Proj Off; NASA Release 67 ...

... Satellites ATS -C) (Applications Technology Satellite) was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Atlas-Agena D booster. Primary purpose of launch was to place spin-stabilized spacecraft into geostationary ... and last Applications Technology Satellites ATS to be launched with Atlas-Agena ; two remaining spacecraft in series would be launched with Atlas-Centaur . Applications Technology Satellites ATS program was managed by Goddard ...

... Release 66-114)'' USAF Flight Safety Review Board announced it had pinpointed cause of the Atlas booster failure during the aborted GEMINI IX mission May 17: gimbaling of the booster engine which forced the Atlas-Agena into a hardover trajectory was caused by a short circuit in the electrical command ... to ensure that it would not happen again, new tests would be made on the Atlas and electrical connections in all new boosters would be x-rayed. NASA scheduled the mission ...

... -June 1: NASA’s SURVEYOR I was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Atlas-Centaur (AC-10) booster on 63-hr. direct ascent lunar transfer trajectory. Spacecraft-carrying survey ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ; prime contractor for spacecraft development and design was Hughes Aircraft Co. Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle was under direction of Lewis Research Center LRC . ''(NASA Release 66-127 ...

... at Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC May 1. ''(Release 69-116)'' INTELSAT Consortium had selected Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle for Intelsat IV program, ComSatCorp announced. First Intelsat IV -18-ft-high ... 1971. ComSatCorp would negotiate with NASA for purchase and Launch of two Atlas-Centaur boosters with option for two more. Atlas-Centaur was manufactured by General Dynamics Corp. Convair Div. and managed ...

... the system providing communications service to a particular point in the world. USAF launched an Atlas missile from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., in a test flight down the Pacific Missile Range . A SAC combat missile crew launched the Atlas from a horizontal, semi-hard "coffin" launcher. In a recent tightening of DOD policy on ... of launch of an unidentified satellite would be considered on a case-by-case basis. Atlas-Centaur initial launch from Atlantic Missile Range AMR was again postponed by NASA, this time ...

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