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Image:AtlasCentaur2.jpg 200px Atlas Centaur 2 launch vehicle Category:Launch Vehicle

... in a series of five fleet satellite communications system spacecraft, from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas Centaur at 2:56 p.m. into a transfer orbit, before firing its apogee kick motor ... by an Atlas Centaur . The TRW built 4,100-pound FltSatcom 2 was about 880 pounds heavier than any previously launched by this vehicle, requiring it to take a path offset 2.4° from ... 1979 May May 1 1979 1 May 2 1979 2 May 3 1979 3 May 4 1979 4 May 5 1979 5 May 6 1979 6 May 7 1979 7 May 8 ...

... launch vehicle, and last to be launched from Complex 13. Agena would be replaced by Atlas-Centaur, and Complex 13 would revert to USAF. Scientific instrumentation for Ogo V's 24 experiments ... ; and two private companies. Ogo V joined three other operational OGOs-Ogo I ''(launched Sept. 4, 1964)'', Ogo III ''(launched June 6, 1966)'', and Ogo IV ''(launched July 28, 1967)''-in ... in space. OGO program was managed by GSFC under OSSA direction. LeRC was responsible for Atlas-Agena launch vehicle, and KSC for launch opera­tions. ''(NASA Proj Off; NASA Releases 68 ...

... at ARC, during meeting of scientists, engineers, and contractors at Mountain View, Calif. Launched by Atlas-Centaur booster, Pioneer F would take 610-770 days to reach Jupiter on voyage through planet ... 1970 NASA authorization. Report would retain Senate-passed authorization of $3.716 billion. ''(CR, 11/4/69, D1023)'' At televised news conference in Moscow on Soyuz VI , VII, and VIII mission ...

... Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( INTELSAT ) from Cape Canaveral at 7:23 p.m. EST on an Atlas Centaur into a transfer orbit with 35,953-kilometer apogee, 165. 8-kilometer perigee, and 24 ... -491-203-82-04 prelaunch Feb 25/82, postlaunch Mar 25/82; INTELSAT Release 82-4-1) February 1982 February March 1982 March Mar 1 1982 1 Mar 2 1982 2 Mar 3 1982 3 Mar 4 1982 4 Mar 5 1982 5 Mar 6 1982 6 Mar 7 1982 7 Mar 8 ...

... ." (NASA Release 86-170) The sixth FLTSATCOM communications satellite, F-7, was launched by an Atlas-Centaur rocket fired from Cape Canaveral , Florida. The Department of Defense added this satellite to their ... 1986 December Dec 1 1986 1 Dec 2 1986 2 Dec 3 1986 3 Dec 4 1986 4 Dec 5 1986 5 Dec 6 1986 6 Dec 7 1986 7 Dec 8 ...

... genesis of the program through work on the MX-774 prototype missile. Chapters 4 through 12 discuss the Atlas design, its production and test facilities, and development testing to the point of ... 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 ...

... ; with an accident rate over seven times the average across the service. ref 3 ref 4 The Lockheed Starfighter (its real name) was also almost useless for patrolling the vast expanse ... Knight second stage, could outlift most of the US boosters, with the notable exception of Atlas-Agena-Centaur. Leslie R. Shepherd concluded the proceedings by saying that the BIS intended to host ...

... Systems Command and NASA, a demand so great that a new standardized Atlas space launch vehicle called SLV-3 or Atlas-3 has been designed. This standardized vehicle will produce lower long ... vehicles for new missions. Research and development costs are already expended and Atlas has certainly proven its reliability. . . ." ''(CR, 3/4/64, A1115)'' ComSatCorp applied to FCC for authority to construct and ...

... objects varying in size, believed to be insulation panels and nose fairing of the stage. Centaur project officials believed that after attitude control was discontinued in orbit, the stage began to ... providing excellent studies of Soviet military installations. ''(AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 12/5/63)'' December 4-7: 32 high school science students participated in Na­tional Youth Science Congress in ...

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