Episodes Tagged with "Delta"

Jul 11

Space Rocket History #20 – Tiros 1 and Echo 1 – The First Weather and Communications Satellites

Posted on July 11, 2013

“Who can say what contraption the future will bring? There can be not a doubt, some more wonderful thing. And if anyone ventures the future to scan, Why indeed should it not be your old Weather Man? Have you noticed how often in times that are pa...

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Tagged:Arpa, Arthur C Clarke, Bell Labs, Belmar, Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Delta, Echo, Eisenhower, Exploration, George Mindling, John Pierce, Kaena Point, Naca, Nasa, Satelloon, Thor Abel, Tiros, Vanguard

Mar 6

Space Rocket History #53 – Gemini 2 – Part 1

Posted on March 6, 2014

The bright outlook that was prevalent in April turned dark in the late summer of 1964 when a series of natural disasters struck the Cape. First lightning, then hurricanes, damaged the Gemini 2 launch vehicle to delay its flight long past the schedule...

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Figure 74. Special instrumentation pallets to be installed in Gemini spacecraft No. 2 in the same positions that astronauts would occupy in later flights

Figure 75. The first stage of Gemini launch vehicle 2 being unloaded from an Air Force C-133 at Cape Kennedy

Tagged:Agena, Air Force, C 133b, Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Cleo, Communications, Complex 19, Csat, Dei, Delta, Design Engineering Inspection, Electrical Power, Environmental System, Escape, Exploration, Gemini, Gemini Titan 2, Glv 2, Guidance, History, Hurricane, Landing, Lyndon Johnson, Martin, Martin Marietta, Mcdonnell, Mercury, Msc, Nasa, Pirotechnics, Propulsion, Rocket, Russia, Sequential, Soviet, Space, Titan Iiia, Walter Matthews

Apr 17

Space Rocket History #59 – Ranger 8-9, and Intelsat I

Posted on April 17, 2014

In total Ranger 9 transmitted 5,814 good contrast photographs during the final 19 minutes of flight. The last image taken before impact had a resolution of 0.3 meters per pixel. The spacecraft encountered the lunar surface after 64.5 hours of flight....

Sea of Tranquillity on the Moon from 11 km, 5 seconds before impact

Rilles on the Floor of Alphonus Crater

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First picture of the Moon taken by Ranger 8

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Tagged:Agena, Alphonus, Altair, Andover, Apollo 11, Atlas, Block 3, Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Charles Cole, Communications Satellite Corporation, Comsat, Delta, Delta D, Delta C, Early Bird, Exploration, Gemini 6, History, Huges, Intelsat, Jpl, Moon, Nasa, Ranger 8, Ranger 9, Soviet, Space, Telemetry, Thor