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... Atlas-Agena B vehicles directly from contractors, thus eliminating USAF as procurement was predicted in Aviation Week. NASA would name single responsible contractor for vehicle integration and would standardize the Atlas-Agena B for space missions. NASA already had used seven of the vehicles five for Ranger and two for Mariner -and was planning to use 20 Atlas-Agena B ’s over next ...

... Kennedy by an Atlas-Agena B . Seven minutes after lift-off, the spacecraft and the Agena stage went into a parking orbit some 115 mi. above Africa; the Agena engines were cut off. For ... pull of the earth's gravity. Several minutes after injection, RANGER VIII was separated from Agena , which entered an elliptical orbit. About an hour after launch, RANGER VIII received and obeyed ...

... Atlas-Agena vehicles from Complex 12 at Atlantic Missile Range AMR and USAF will conduct all Agena launch operations from Pacific Missile Range PMR ; technical and administrative control of 11 remaining NASA Agena B stages transferred from USAF to NASA. Atlas-Agena vehicles for Project Gemini ...

... Atlas-Agena B launch vehicle from Atlantic Missile Range AMR in lunar landing mission to photograph the moon's surface. The Atlas booster fired properly and, after stage sepa­ration, the Agena B stage ignited and attained orbital speed. After coast­ing in parking orbit of about 110-mi. altitude, the Agena B reignited, sending RANGER VI through the ...

... Atlas-Agena B vehicle boosting MARINER II Venus probe launched from Cape Canaveral at 2:53 AM EDT, the Atlas boosting its load to about 115 mi. and then the Agena B igniting to project it into parking orbit. About half an hour after launch the Agena B engines reignited, accelerating the probe's speed from ... projects because of employment of nonunion members—remained to be settled. Announced that Anna 1-B geodetic satellite would not be launched until October because recently-created radiation belt might adversely ...

... the successful intercept. This was second successful intercept-test by Army's Nike-Zeus . NASA Agena B vehicle program would be transferred from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to NASA Lewis Research ... , Associate Administrator Robert C. Seamans , Jr., announced. Transfer included Atlas and Thor boosters used with Agena B upper stage. Dr. Seamans said the transfer, which would be completed within three months, would ...

... 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 Agena stage and spacecraft interfaces during Thor boost ... launch vibration environment of the Thor-Agena B rocket. Demonstration that these techniques were sound is most important in designing future experiments and structures for the Thor Agena vehicles," Goddard project experimenter James ...

Canadian satellite ALOUETTE was placed in polar orbit by Thor-Agena B vehicle launched by NASA from Vandenberg AFB . Initial orbital data: apogee, 619.2 mi.; perigee, ... first into polar orbit, first from Pacific Missile Range PMR , and first use of Thor-Agena B combination. To sustain its experiments in study of the ionosphere, the 320-lb. ALOUETTE had ...

... -Agena B. After the Agena had carried the 800-lb. RANGER IX into 115-mi.-altitude parking orbit with 17,500 mph orbital speed, the Agena engines were cut off. Second burn of the Agena ...

... hours after launch, never functioned again. About the same time as the lunar impact, the Agena B 2nd stage passed to the right of the moon and went into orbit around the ... unidentified satellites, one boosted by a four-stage Blue Scout , the other by an Atlas-Agena B , both from Pacific Missile Range PMR U.N. Public Registry stated Blue Scout did not attain orbit. USAF was awarded the Bendix Trophy for its record-breaking B-58 transcontinental flight in two hours and 56.8 seconds at average speed of 1 ...

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