Launch Vehicles
Scout
United States
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A small, all-solid-fuel American launch vehicle developed by NASA for inexpensive access to orbit for lightweight scientific satellites, notable as the first orbital rocket assembled entirely from solid-propellant stages. It flew from 1960 into the early 1990s from launch sites on three continents.
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Vehicle ClassLight-lift solid-fuel expendable launch vehicle 1 Manufacturer StatusRetired in 1994 after more than one hundred flights. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/s/scout.htmlQuote, http://astronautix.com/s/scout.html
The Scout was a four-stage, solid-fuelled rocket developed to provide the United States with a reliable, versatile and cost-effective launch vehicle for a variety of space exploration tasks - orbital, high altitude probe, and high speed re-entry.
NASA History Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administrationhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/road-apollo-first-scout-program-launch/Quote, https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/road-apollo-first-scout-program-launch/
The Scout program began in 1957 to build an inexpensive sounding rocket to carry small research payloads to high altitudes.
NASA History Office
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