Scout X-4
In-active ScoutVought ()
June 28, 1963
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
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Stages
4 -
Length
25.0 m -
Diameter
1.01 m -
Fairing Diameter
1.01 m -
Launch Mass
17 T -
Thrust
513 kN
Family
-
Name
Scout X-4 -
Family
Scout -
Variant
4 -
Alias
― -
Full Name
Scout X-4
Payload Capacity
-
Launch Cost
― -
Low Earth Orbit
103 kg -
Geostationary Transfer
Orbit
― -
Direct Geostationary
― -
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―
Vought
None
None
1917Vought 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 X-4 | FR-1
Vought | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 6, 1965, 9:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The FR 1 (France 1) spacecraft was a small spacecraft carrying two experiments. One was designed to observe VLF signals from earth-based transmitters, and the other was an electron density probe measuring electron concentration at the satellite.
Low Earth OrbitScout X-4 | Solrad 8
Vought | USAWallops Island, Virginia, USA
Nov. 19, 1965, 4:48 a.m.
Scout X-4 | Beacon Explorer C
Vought | USAWallops Island, Virginia, USA
April 29, 1965, 2:17 p.m.
Scout X-4 | San Marco 1
Vought | USAWallops Island, Virginia, USA
Dec. 15, 1964, 8:20 p.m.
Scout X-4 | Explorer 24 & 25
Vought | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 21, 1964, 5:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Explorer 24 was placed in orbit together with Explorer 25 from a single launch vehicle. Explorer 24 was identical in configuration to the previously launched balloon satellites Explorer 9 and 19. The spacecraft was 3.6 m in diameter, was built of alternating layers of aluminum foil and plastic film, and was covered uniformly with 5.1-cm white dots for thermal control. It was designed to yield atmospheric density near perigee as a function of space and time from sequential observations of the sphere's position in orbit.
Elliptical OrbitScout X-4 | Explorer 23
Vought | USAWallops Island, Virginia, USA
Nov. 6, 1964, 12:02 p.m.
Scout X-4 | Beacon Explorer B
Vought | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 10, 1964, 3:01 a.m.
Scout X-4 | Explorer 20
Vought | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 25, 1964, 1:43 p.m.
Scout X-4 | ESRS
Vought | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 25, 1964, 1:40 a.m.
Scout X-4 | Transit VC
Vought | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 4, 1964, 3:50 a.m.
Scout X-4 | Explorer 19
Vought | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 19, 1963, 6:49 p.m.
Scout X-4 | GRS
Vought | USAWallops Island, Virginia, USA
June 28, 1963, 9:19 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
GRS (Geophysical Research Satellite) was a geophysics experiment test built by the Cambridge Research Lab (CRL). Data was obtained for 13 orbits, after which time the satellite ceased working due to a failure in the primary power supply.
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