It featured a Bouwers concentric telescope with an 8-inch aperture.
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The Series III carried an improved Aerojet-General infrared payload. Getting rid of the OCV should have freed up a lot more. Atlas-LV3 Agena-B launched with Midas 9 from SLC-3E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA on Friday at 03:51 UTC.
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Jonathan's conclusion, based upon some admittedly wild guesses, was that the transition of launch vehicles did not free up a lot of additional mass. So it makes you wonder how they used all that extra mass. However, for at least a bunch of flights the KH-8 did not have an extra Satellite Recovery Vehicle or much longer lifetime. Now you would think that deleting the OCV and switching from the Atlas Agena D to the Titan III Agena D would have freed up a LOT of mass that they could devote to payload. The KH-8 flew on a Titan Agena D, but also deleted the General Electric built Orbital Control Vehicle. Pad 13 is known today as Landing Zone 1, a landing facility for recovering components- currently the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket booster-of SpaceX's reusable launch vehicles.Quote from: Blackstar on 09:18 pm Jonathan McDowell and I have been trying to figure out just how much additional payload margin the NRO gained during the switch from the KH-7 Gambit to the KH-8. Old Complex 13 was the launch site of the spy satellite along with 50 other Atlas-type rocket firings from 1958 to 1978. The sample depicted here was one that came from my own stock since it contained transparent tape on the back of the souvenir descriptive card. They were produced as tie tack pins and key ring chains during the 1970's, however, it was never determined what company had produced the unusual souvenirs made from an exploded spy-satellite rocket carrier launched from the Cape in December 1971. My firm was able to acquire a bulk purchase of the exploded Atlas-Agena D rocket fragment pieces many years ago. The Atlas - Agena payload mass curve of figure 6 goes to zero at an inclination of about 19. I knew someone - and probably more than one - on this forum had the answer. Many of them are beat up and yellowed from poor storage and some look like a dog or rodent has chewed on them. I believe the supply has finally been dispersed to the collector market. They were once very common here as someone in a local antique store had bought a number of them at an estate sale. I have seen these fragments as both a tie tac and as just a fragment of the missile. I'm also interested in any information about who produced the cards. The date on the back of the card points to the failed launch of a US spy satellite on December 4, 1971.
While the card doesn't specify the mission, Wikipedia lists the mission as an Atlas-Agena D SLV-3A (S/N 5503A) with the AFP-827 (Canyon-4) payload.Īn example of the tie-tac version below. The rocket veered off course early in flight and was destroyed by the Range Safety Officer. It carried an experimental payload referred to as a "spy-in-the-sky satellite." It was a television carrying spy satellite which could keep track of particularly enemy movement in daylight or dark. This rocket blasted off Pad 13 at Cape Kennedy at approximately 5:30 pm on 4 December 1971. The entire vehicle was designed to carry a 5,780-pound payload to low-Earth orbit, a 750-pound payload to Earth-escape trajectory or a 450-pound payload to a Mars or Venus trajectory.
Both of them have a piece of paper on the back (one stapled, one taped): Your missile piece was taken from the (skin) or outer shell of an Atlas Agena rocket. The history of this particular Atlas Agena is provided on the card attached to your souvenir. This is the true thickness and consistency of the metal.
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The souvenirs are made from the skin or shell of an actual fired Atlas Agena missile. The front says: The Perfect Souvenir! Made from an Actual Missile Agena B, and the Atlas-Agena B have all been flown at least once. I have two of these souvenirs (one a tie tack and one a lapel pin), both still attached to their cards. The only vehicle which has so far launched a payload into orbit and which has been. Many years ago I believe I read the source of the fragments came from a booster which exploded during launch.ĭoes anyone know with certainty the specific source of the fragments? Was there more than one source? Topic: Flown Atlas-Agena fragment on key chainįrom time to time I find on eBay a flown fragment from an Atlas-Agena attached to a key chain. Profile | register | preferences | faq | search Flown Atlas-Agena fragment on key chain - collectSPACE: Messages
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