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... set up at Goddard Space Flight Center to investigate the 2nd-stage failure of a Thor-Delta during the 18 Jan. Skynet IIA launch. NASA believed that, with the 2914 Delta ... mission, but RCA Corp. had determined that a 30% to 35% increase in the 2914 Thor-Delta capability would permit a 24-channel, rather than the usual 12-channel, satellite to ... would reimburse NASA for technical direction. NASA had not agreed to make the new 3914 Thor-Delta a part of its launch family but probably would do so following successful proof ...

... pm EST by NASA from Eastern Test Range on three-stage, long-tank, thrust-augmented Thor-Delta launch vehicle. Anik 1 was placed in highly elliptical transfer orbit with apogee of ... lifetime requirements. Objective was met; mission was adjudged successful Nov. 15. Launch was first on Thor-Delta "straight eight" launch vehicle, so called because diameter was eight feet for all three ...

... scientist of USAF OAR and executive director of AFOSR. ''(Av. Wk., 12/17/62,25)'' Thor missiles being returned to US. from U.K. would be modified for use as space vehicles, USAF announced. Three of U.K.’s 60 operational Thors already had been returned to Douglas Aircraft Co. for conversion, so that they could be used in space assignments similar to those of conventional Thor space boosters ''(Wash. Post, 1/12/63)'' USAF announced Titan II missile had been test ...

... the first United States satellite launching, the Explorer-Jupiter C , and continuing through the Thor , Atlas , Thor-Delta , and Thor-Agena to the Saturn V in 1968 through 1970, the cost of payload ...

... Air Force took the upper two Vanguard Program Vanguard stages, mounted them on Thor, and called the combination Thor-Able . NASA then made minor modifications in the vehicle's coast attitude-control system and put in a new auto-pilot control system; but the basic Thor-Able shell was used. This was the Delta that failed in its first firing in ...

... COURIER 1-B active communications satellite successfully placed into orbit by Thor-Able-Star launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral . After completing one orbit it received and recorded ... station in Puerto Rico. This marked the 100th launch of the Douglas Thor , military and scientific combined, and a Thor record of 60 percent of the U.S. satellites boosted into orbit ...

March 11-24: NASA launched European Space Research Organization's TD-1A (Thor-Delta IA) astronomical observatory satellite from Western Test Range at 5:55 pm PST (8:55 pm EST) by long-tank, thrust-augmented Thor-Delta booster. TD-1 A entered sun-synchronous orbit with 539-km (334.9-mi ... launch in program had been Heos 2 launched Jan. 31. ESRO would reimburse NASA for Thor-Delta booster, launch, and launch-support services. Spacecraft would be controlled from European Space Operations ...

... amateur radio communications satellite-from Western Test Range at 9:11 am PST on one Thor-Delta launch vehicle. The three spacecraft entered almost identical, near-to-planned, polar orbits. It was the first triple launch for a Thor-Delta . Noaa 4 entered orbit with a 1458-km apogee, 1444-km perigee, 115- min ... to provide global cloud-cover observations. Delayed 29 Oct. by faulty electrical connectors on the Thor-Delta and again 13 Nov. when a 2nd-stage hydraulic pump posed a problem, the ...

... ) NASA management had permitted inflight use of "undesirable components" in the electrical system of the Thor-Delta launch vehicle to preserve the program's schedule, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. At least two Thor-Delta s had been launched with the same electrical-system contamination failure potential that "probably ...

... into the space era, the Alouette satellite, would be launched in 1962 on a Douglas Thor missile, similar to that which Blue Streak would have replaced. Alouette was delayed by over a year because the American Thor-Delta launch system originally proposed was not capable of lofting its 318 pound weight into the orbit required. ref 6 The Thor-Agena ended up doing the job in September 1962, a year later than Blue Streak ...

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