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... The U.S. Air Force successfully launched two military satellites aboard an Atlas 3B, the last of Lockheed Martin 's Atlas 3 rockets. The launch marked the 145th and final launch from Complex ... for its Atlas-Centaur program, which included the launches of NASA's historic Surveyor, Mariner, and Pioneer missions. Launches from the site had proved highly successful; the launch of the last Atlas 3B ...

... . . . .” Rep. Wydler’s amendment was defeated. ''(CR, 5/3/66, 9189-9223)'' Malfunction in Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle’s attitude control system was responsible for Centaur stage’s failure to achieve double ignition in ... ETR , NASA announced. Preliminary analysis indicated that one or more small attitude control jets on Centaur stage apparently used excessive amounts of hydrogen peroxide gas, causing early depletion of system’s ...

... )'' November 3-13: NASA'S Mariner 10 (Mariner-J) Venus-Mercury probe was launched into a parking orbit from Eastern Test Range at 12:45 am EST by an Atlas-Centaur Dl-A launch vehicle. After a 25-min coast, a 130-sec burn of the Centaur engines injected the spacecraft into a heliocentric orbit ... pressed against a cathode ray display, pushing a button that cut out eight instruments. December 3-11: As the gold and silver spacecraft approached Jupiter and radiation intensity increased 10-fold ...

... , exploding galaxies, and black holes. Launch would be from KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC on an Atlas Centaur about Nov. 13. Carrying a focusing x-ray telescope and a variety of sensitive instruments ... the facilities at Kapustin Yar , site of previous Vertikal launches. (FBIS, Tass in English, Oct 3/78) October 1978 October November 1978 November Nov 1 1978 1 Nov 2 1978 2 ...

... consecutive launches. The four most used vehicles for launching satellites (the Delta, Titan 3D and Atlas Centaur rockets and the Space Shuttle ) were all put on hold, grounding the agency for an ... 1986 April May 1986 May May 1 1986 1 May 2 1986 2 May 3 1986 3 May 4 1986 4 May 5 1986 5 May 6 1986 6 May 7 1986 ...

... United States. Chapters 1 through 3 cover the genesis of the program through work on the MX-774 prototype missile. Chapters 4 through 12 discuss the Atlas design, its production and test ... relates to the role of Atlas in Americas space programs from the late 1950s to the present day. Chapters 17 and 18 describe the high-performance Centaur upper stage used for communication ... Atlas was retired by the time this book was released, but parts of the Atlas legacy lives on in the form of the Centaur upper stage (and even its famous name) in the Atlas ...

... Second Aerobee 150, launched 30 min later, carried Columbia Univ. experiment to 2.1- mi ''(3.3-km)'' altitude to search for x-ray emission from known extraga­lactic objects in ... would include previously separate Centaur, Agena, and Atlas Project Offices. William R. Dunbar would become Project Manager for Centaur. H. Warren Plohr and Edward F. Baehr continued as Agena and Atlas Project Managers. ''( ...

... contract for fabrication and delivery of three flight inertial measurement groups (IMG) for the Shuttle/Centaur guidance and navigation system, which maintained a fixed reference orientation for and measured acceleration of ... investigate planetary systems, to fit into the Space Shuttle . NASA would first use the Shuttle Centaur combination to launch the Galileo and then the Ulysses missions. ( Lewis Research Center LeRC Release ... 1985 May June 1985 June Jun 1 1985 1 Jun 2 1985 2 Jun 3 1985 3 Jun 4 1985 4 Jun 5 1985 5 Jun 6 1985 6 Jun 7 1985 ...

... to cut back the manned spaceflight program and substitute cheaper unmanned flights. ''(R, 10/3/63,17666)'' Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson quoted in article in Washing­ton Daily ... Assistant Administrator for Technology Utilization and Policy Planning: "On Sept. 30, 1962, we moved the Centaur project from Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville to the Lewis Research Center because ...

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