Thor-Agena
Sign in to saveThor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The launch vehicles used the Douglas-built Thor first stage and the Lockheed-built Agena second stages. They are thus cousins of the more-famous Thor-Deltas, which founded the Delta rocket family.
Key facts
- Rocket.image
- Thor Agena B with Discoverer 37 on launch pad (Jan. 13 1962).jpg
- Rocket.caption
- A Thor-Agena launch vehicle, ready to launch the Discoverer 37 (KH-3) spacecraft, 13 January 1962
- Rocket.function
- Expendable launch system
- Rocket.country origin
- United States
- Rocket.sites
- Vandenberg Air Force Base
- Rocket.height
- Thor-Agena A: Thor-Agena B: Thor-Agena D:
- Rocket.mass
- Thor-Agena A: Thor-Agena B: Thor-Agena D:
- Rocket.stages
- 2
- Rocket.launches
- 145
- Rocket.status
- Retired
- Rocket.first
- 21 January 1959
- Rocket.last
- 17 January 1968
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Missions
- Versions
- Thor-Agena A
- Thor-Agena B
- Thor-Agena D
- 1963 Mystery Cloud
- Version table
- References
Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The launch vehicles used the Douglas-built Thor first stage and the Lockheed-built Agena second stages. They are thus cousins of the more-famous Thor-Deltas, which founded the Delta rocket family.
The first attempted launch of a Thor-Agena was in January 1959. The first successful launch was on 28 February 1959, launching Discoverer 1. It was the first two-stage launch vehicle to place a satellite into orbit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thor-Agena” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.