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... )'' NASA announced purchase from Douglas Aircraft Co. of eight more Delta launch vehicles, some of which would be the Thrust-Augmented Delta (TAD) capable of placing 1,000-lb. payload into low earth orbit as compared to 800 lbs. for standard Delta. ''(NASA Release 64-46)'' A. O. Tischler, NASA. Director of Chemical Propulsion, Office of Advanced ...

... and the pickaback second stage with 10-14 men and supplies. In this concept, both delta-shape stages would be recover-able. ''(Av. Wk., 6/29/64, 38)'' NASA Deputy Administrator ... on suborbital trajectories from Wallops Island, Va. ''(LaRC Release)'' Future Delta launch vehicles with larger propellant tanks, the Thrust-Augmented Delta (TAD), would be used to launch payloads in the Bio-satellite ...

... successfully launched into heliocentric orbit from Eastern Test Range with an Improved Thrust Augmented Delta booster. Main Delta engine and three solid strap-on motors fired together and burned for 43 sec ... were jettisoned 70 sec, after launch; main engine burned out after two minutes 45 sec. Delta second stage ignited after two minutes 59 sec.; first stage separated and fell away; shroud ...

... management of ABC and under direction of Office of Space Science and Applications OSSA . The Delta launch vehicle was managed by Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC . Communications and tracking were handled ... Flight Center GSFC . Biosatellite II was built by the General Electric Reentry Systems Dept. The Delta launch vehicle was built by Douglas Aircraft Co. ''(NASA Proj Off; NASA Release 67-239 ...

... . on a $10-million, fixed-price-incentive contract for 10 improved 2nd stages for the Delta launch vehicle. Procurement for new stages would include modified versions, larger in diameter than original ... be mated to new elongated Thor 1st stages which would be incorporated in the Delta configuration beginning in 1968. ''(NASA Release 67-306)'' December 1967 December Dec 1 1967 1 ...

... launched from Eastern Test Range ETR at 3:52 am EDT by two-stage Thor-Delta N booster to study sun and its influence on earth's atmosphere. Orbital parameters: apogee ... observations of single lines and solar flares. Pac (Package Attitude Control) system, carried pickaback on Delta 2nd stage, was ejected into orbit with 340-mi (547.1-km) apogee, 300mi (482 ... to flight-test long-life, low-power, three-axis Pac earth-stabilized control system for Delta 2nd stage and to demonstrate feasibility of using stage as experimental platform. Oso VI was ...

... successfully launched five satellites out of six attempts, the only failure being the first attempt. Delta's high reliability record began with Echo I on August 12, 1960, and includes Tiros ... , and Explorer X Explorers X and XII. Built by prime contractor Douglas Aircraft, the NASA Delta launch vehicle consists of a Thor first stage (Rocketdyne MB-3 liquid engine), Aerojet-General ...

... EXPLORER XIV satellite was launched into orbit by Thor-Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral on mission to study natural and man-made radiation in space. ... injected into orbit at nearly 24,000-mph speed by the three-stage Thor-Delta . This was Delta's 12th straight successful satellite launching. 20th anniversary of first military jet-powered flight ...

... Research Organization rejected a plan to install a launch pad for the McDonnell Douglas Thor-Delta launch vehicle at the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana. The ESRO decision, which followed ... the rejection. The press speculated that, although proponents of the proposal con-tended the Thor-Delta launch capability would complement the European Ariane launcher under development, the plan might have run ...

... ; SBD, 11/2/71, 14; Owen, KC Times, 11/26/71)'' NASA announced establishment of Delta Launch Vehicle System Review Board to investigate and recommend corrective action for failure of nor-Delta 85 to place OSO 7 in planned orbit Sept. 29 and failure of nor-Delta 86 to orbit ITOS-5 Oct. 21. Dr ...

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