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... Thor-Delta launch vehicle to launch domestic satellites. It was the first time private industry had set design requirements and provided funds to modify a launch vehicle. Under contract terms, the Thor-Delta payload ...

... launched Explorer 50 (IMP-J) Interplanetary Moni-toring Platform by a long-tank, thrust-augmented Thor-Delta launch vehicle from Eastern Test Range at 10:26 pm EDT to study the cislunar ... direction of the Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition. GSFC was also responsible for the Thor-Delta launch vehicle. ''(NASA prog off; NASA Release 73-211; KSC Release 231-73)'' October 25 ...

... Test Range at 6:02 am PST on a two-stage, long-tank, thrust-augmented Thor-Delta 0300 launch vehicle. The satellite entered near-nominal orbit with a 1509.2-km (937 ... the spacecraft and ground systems, launch checkout and evaluation, tracking and data acquisition, and the Thor-Delta launch vehicle. NESS was responsible for operating the spacecraft and processing the data. ''(NASA prog ...

... Test Range at 5:31 am EDT. The 1st-stage propulsion of the three-stage Thor-Delta launch vehicle was less than normal. The 2nd stage burned to near propellant completion, compensating ... Center under the direction of the Office of Applications. GSFC also had responsibility for the Thor-Delta launch vehicle. ''(NASA MORS, 10 May, 20 May, 18 Dec. 74; NASA, Mgr Small Launch ...

... , announced appointment of a committee to review all aspects of the Thor-Delta launch vehicle program, including all anomalies in recent Thor-Delta launches. Pending completion of the review, the 10 June launch of ...

... Corp. had been awarded an $8 900 000 contract for strap-on motors for the Thor-Delta launch vehicle, NASA announced. Delivery would run from May 1975 through May 1976. The contract ... -5 (Castro II) rocket motors, 41 upper-burn nozzle closure plugs, and documentation for the Thor-Delta , which was managed by Goddard Space Flight Center . The Castro II strap-ons had a ...

... , at 9:39 pm EST from Eastern Test Range on a three-stage, thrust-augmented Thor-Delta launch vehicle. The 402-kg satellite entered a transfer orbit with a 38 071-km ... , 402-km perigee, 688.2-min period, and 13.2° inclination. Nine seconds after the Thor-Delta 's 3rd stage separated from the 2nd stage, the inertial measurement unit (the altitude-sensing ...

... pin EST. Launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , the three-stage inertially guided Thor-Delta booster placed the satellite in an orbit with a 36 810-km apogee, 197-km ... program under the direction of NASA's Office of Applications, also had responsibility for the Thor-Delta launch vehicle. (NASA MORs, 9 Jan, 10 Feb, 23 April 75; NASA Releases 75-6 ...

... Thor-Delta launch operations at the Eastern and Western Test Range s had resumed on a limited ... satellite, both originally scheduled for March, had been rescheduled for April and May launch on Thor-Delta vehicles delivered before the strike began. Other launch dates would depend on the buildup and ...

... Ocean Satellite from Western Test Range at 4:50 pm PDT on a two-stage Thor-Delta 1410 launch vehicle. The satellite entered orbit with an 844-km apogee, 837-km perigee ... under the direction of the Office of Applications at NASA Headquarters. Mission operations and the Thor-Delta launch vehicle were managed by Goddard Space Flight Center . The spacecraft, designed and built by ...

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