Scout G-1

In-active

Vought ()

Oct. 30, 1979

Description

The Scout family of rockets were were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the first orbital launch vehicle to be entirely composed of solid fuel stages.

Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    26.0 m
  • Diameter
    1.14 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    1.14 m
  • Launch Mass
    20 T
  • Thrust
    395 kN
Family
  • Name
    Scout G-1
  • Family
  • Variant
    G-1
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Scout G-1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $8660000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    210 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Vought

Commercial
None
1917

Vought was the name of several related American aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought-Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace (part of Ling-Temco-Vought), Vought Aircraft Companies, and Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M. Vought and Birdseye Lewis in 1917. In 1928, it was acquired by United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, which a few years later became United Aircraft Corporation; this was the first of many reorganizations and buyouts. During the 1920s and 1930s, Vought Aircraft and Chance Vought specialized in carrier-based aircraft for the United States Navy, by far its biggest customer. Chance Vought produced thousands of planes during World War II, including the F4U Corsair. Vought became independent again in 1954, and was purchased by Ling-Temco-Vought in 1961. The company designed and produced a variety of planes and missiles throughout the Cold War. Vought was sold from LTV and owned in various degrees by the Carlyle Group and Northrop Grumman in the early 1990s. It was then fully bought by Carlyle, renamed Vought Aircraft Industries, with headquarters in Dallas, Texas. In June 2010, the Carlyle Group sold Vought to the Triumph Group.

Scout G-1 | MSTI-2

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 9, 1994, 2:47 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

MSTI 2 (Miniature Sensor Technology Integration 2) was a US Department of Defense spacecraft launched from the Vandenberg AFB by a Scout-G1 rocket. It was the last of the now discontinued Scout series. The primary mission of MSTI 2 was to demonstrate theater ballistic missile (TBM) tracking and was intended to last for six months. It successfully spotted and locked onto a test Minuteman-3 launched from Vandenberg AFB. More than three million short wavelength infrared (SWIR) and medium wavelength infrared (MWIR) image frames were obtained during the mission.

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Scout G-1 | RADCAL

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 25, 1993, 11:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

RadCal (Radar Calibration) is small satellite to calibrate the Space Command radars to determine orbital positions of other satellites to within a few meters.

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Scout G-1 | MSTI-1

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 21, 1992, 1:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

MSTI 1 (Miniature Sensor Technology Integration 1) had a four day mission to photograph infrared images of islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Scout G-1 | SAMPEX

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 3, 1992, 2:19 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The main objectives of SAMPEX (Solar Anomalous & Magnetospheric Particle Explorer) experiments was to obtain data for several continuous years on the anomalous, components of cosmic rays, on energetic particle emissions from the sun, and on the precipitating magnetospheric relativistic electrons.

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Scout G-1 | REX

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 29, 1991, 2 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

REX (Radiation Experiment) or ISES (Integrated Space Experiment System) was an Air Force Rome Laboratory ionospheric research satellite which tested the effects of the atmosphere on radio transmissions, and employed GPS for on-board navigation and attitude control.

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Scout G-1 | MACSAT 1 & 2

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 9, 1990, 5:50 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Experimental communications satellites for the US military

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Scout G-1 | Transit-O 25,31

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 25, 1988, 6:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.

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Scout G-1 | Nova 2

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 16, 1988, 6:54 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Improved Transit navigation satellite

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Scout G-1 | Transit-O 23,32

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 26, 1988, 1:57 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.

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Scout G-1 | San Marco 5

Vought | United States of America
Broglio Space Center, Kenya
March 25, 1988, 7:50 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Italian thermosphere-ionosphere research satellite

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Scout G-1 | Transit-O 27,29

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 16, 1987, 7:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.

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Scout G-1 | Polar Bear

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 14, 1986, 12:23 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military satellite designed to study interferences caused by solar flares and auroral activity

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Scout G-1 | ITV 1 & 2

Vought | United States of America
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
Dec. 13, 1985, 2:35 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

ASAT target satellites

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Scout G-1 | Transit-O 24,30

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 3, 1985, 3:31 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.

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Scout G-1 | Nova 3

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 12, 1984, 1:43 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Improved Transit navigation satellite

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Scout G-1 | Nova 1

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 15, 1981, 6:07 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Improved Transit navigation satellite

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Scout G-1 | Magsat

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 30, 1979, 2:16 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Scientific satellite dedicated to near-earth magnetic fields measurements

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Long March 4C
Success
18 hours, 34 minutes ago
Shiyan 23
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Satellite officially named for "space environment detection" purposes, exact details unknown.


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 13 hours ago
Starlink Group 8-2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 3
Success
3 days, 16 hours ago
ZHTW 1-01
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Zhihui Tianwang 1-01 are 2 experimental Medium Earth Orbit communication satellites in a collaboration between Tsinghua University, SAST and the Shan…


Falcon 9
Success
3 days, 23 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-56
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 6C
Success
5 days, 14 hours ago
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Carried 4 Earth observation satellites to orbit: * Haiwangxing-01, 239 kg X-band SAR satellite built by SAST for Zhihui Space Tech * Zhixing-1C, X-…