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... : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 271 pages, $4.50'' Documentary history of the development of the Thor intermediate range ballistic missile. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and ...

Image:TATAgenaD.jpg 200px Thrust Augmented Thor with Agena D stage Category:Launch Vehicle

Image:ThorAbleStarTransit3A.jpg 200px Thor Able Star with Transit 3A satellite Category:Launch Vehicle

... . Flood (D.-Penn.) recalled that this Subcommittee had been in the thick of the original Thor-Jupiter controversy, asked "what is the peculiar, special, and significant and distinct thin about the ... facilities for the Jupiter." Rep. Flood pressed Gen. Gerrity on "the marked physical distinction between Thor and Jupiter which would rush you into this conclusion?" The General did not recall a ...

... probe, EXPLORER VI scientific satellite, PIONEER V space probe, and TIROS I weather satellite as Thor-Able vehicle; and ECHO I balloon-satellite, ORBITING SOLAR OBSERVATORY OSO I, ARIEL , TELSTAR , and four Tiros satellites as Thor-Delta . Thor-Able-Star (Vanguard-derived upper stages) combination launched series of USN navigation satellites, Army communications ...

... )'' Space Systems Division (SSD) recorded its 200th Thor launch. The figure includes the use of the Thor as a space booster - Thor­-Agena , Thor-Delta , Thor-Able , and Thor-Able-Star - and as an intermediate range ...

... components and scientific analysis for three in situ payload instruments aboard the Turbulence Heating ObserveR (THOR) mission – one of four proposed missions currently under consideration by ESA (European Space Agency). After ... will begin on implementation of the PMO only if THOR is selected. The chosen PMO is: U.S. Contributions to the THOR mission (THOR-US) THOR-US will provide components and scientific analysis for ...

... 63-246; NYT,10/31/63,18; Wash. Post, 10/31/63, 5)'' Thrust-Augmented Thor space booster developed by the USAF would be added to the National Launch Vehicle program ... . in diameter and producing 54,000 lbs. thrust, strapped to the sides of the basic Thor vehicle. This is the same rocket developed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. as the second stage ... , would burn for about 40 see., and then drop off as the Thor engine continued powered flight. Raising Thor's total thrust to 330,000 lbs., TAT would represent a 20 to ...

... starting point. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-4; Conference Rpt., NASA SP-88)’’ Twenty-one Long Tank Thors were purchased from Douglas Missile and Space Systems Div. by USAF for use in its ... AFB . Expected to succeed the present Thrust Augmented Thor (TAT), the Long Tank Thor would provide increased payload capability by enlarging the volume of Thor’s liquid propellant tanks; result would be a ... 330,000 lbs. would be essentially the same as that for TAT, the Long Tank Thor would have a burn time of 216 sec. as compared to 146 sec. for TAT ...

... U.S. to develop its own supersonic commercial airliner within 10 years. Tave ( Thor-Agena Vibration Experiment), flown with Thor-Agena launching ALOUETTE satellite on Sept. 29, measured low-frequency vibrations to ... these techniques were sound is most important in designing future experiments and structures for the Thor Agena vehicles," Goddard project experimenter James Nagy said. Goddard Space Flight Center had designed, built ...

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