Discoverer V, consisting of Agena Flight Test Vehicle 1029, Model 2205, and Thor Booster SM-75 Serial No. 192 was successfully launched on13 August 1959 from Complex SM-75-3, Pad 4, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. After liftoff, the first-stage booster lofted the Agena vehicle approximately 17 miles higher-than-nominal and 1 degree east of the predicted track in azimuth. First mode bending oscillations experienced on previous launches were absent. The Vandenberg AFB VERLORT radar experienced periodic dropouts while tracking; however, the Point Mugu radar tracking was excellent and the velocity-to-be-gained and time-to-fire commands were properly received and executed.
Discoverer Program Performance Analysis Report. Flight of FTV-1029. 13 August 1959 (30-Day Report)
1959
73 pages
Report
No indication
English
Fluid Mechanics , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Common Carrier & Satellite , Measurement , Artificial satellites , Propulsion systems , Telemetry equipment , Air force , Aircrafts , Electronic circuits , Flow rate , Frequency , Generators , Ignition , Instrumentation , Orbits , Radar , Simulations , Specific impulse , Telemetry , Trajectories , Transducers , Transmitters
DEPARTMENTS - PROGRAM PROFILE - Discoverer II's struggle to survive
Online Contents | 2000
Summary report for ... ; July/August/September 1959.
ANL ; 6068
TIBKAT | 1959
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1961
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