KH-5 11

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 2W Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

KH-5 (Keyhole 5, codenamed Argon) was the area survey component of the Corona program.

Thor SLV-2A Agena D

Family:
Configuration: SLV-2A Agena D

Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The rockets used Thor first stages and Agena second stages. They are thus cousins of the more-famous Thor-Deltas, which founded the Delta rocket family.

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    31.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Launch Mass
    67.0 T
  • Thrust
    1571.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Thor SLV-2A Agena D
  • Family
  • Variant
    SLV-2A Agena D
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Thor SLV-2A Agena D
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

McDonnell Douglas

McDonnell Douglas

(MDC)

Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

WIKI

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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