Scout X3 - Scout X3 - COSPAR 1964-015 8,646 bytes. 101 x 412 pixels.

Launches: 10. Failures: 3. Success Rate: 70.00% pct. First Launch Date: 31 August 1962. Last Launch Date: 09 October 1964. LEO Payload: 87 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. Liftoff Thrust: 52,350 kgf. Total Mass: 17,350 kg. Core Diameter: 1.0 m. Total Length: 24.0 m. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 8.91 million. in 1985 unit dollars.

• Stage Number: 1. 1 x Algol 2 Gross Mass: 11,600 kg. Empty Mass: 1,650 kg. Thrust (vac): 57,537 kgf. Isp: 255 sec. Burn time: 47 sec. Isp(sl): 232 sec. Diameter: 1.0 m. Span: 1.0 m. Length: 9.1 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. Algol 2

• Stage Number: 2. 1 x Castor 1 Gross Mass: 3,852 kg. Empty Mass: 535 kg. Thrust (vac): 29,164 kgf. Isp: 247 sec. Burn time: 27 sec. Isp(sl): 232 sec. Diameter: 0.8 m. Span: 0.8 m. Length: 5.9 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. M33-20-4

• Stage Number: 3. 1 x Antares 2 Gross Mass: 1,400 kg. Empty Mass: 300 kg. Thrust (vac): 9,493 kgf. Isp: 293 sec. Burn time: 36 sec. Isp(sl): 233 sec. Diameter: 0.8 m. Span: 0.8 m. Length: 2.9 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. X-259

• Stage Number: 4. 1 x Altair 1A Gross Mass: 390 kg. Empty Mass: 181 kg. Thrust (vac): 1,406 kgf. Isp: 255 sec. Burn time: 40 sec. Isp(sl): 232 sec. Diameter: 0.5 m. Span: 0.5 m. Length: 2.5 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. X-248A

• Reentry 2 Spacecraft: Reentry.

  Suborbital.

• Explorer 16 Spacecraft: S-55. Payload: S-55B. Mass: 100 kg.

  Micrometeoroid data. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B).

• Transit 5A Spacecraft: Transit. Payload: Transit 5A-1. Mass: 61 kg.

  Operational prototype; failed first day.

• USAF satellite (FTV240) Spacecraft: P 35-3. Mass: 40 kg.

  Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A).

• Transit 5A-2 Spacecraft: Transit. Payload: Transit 5A-2. Mass: 84 kg.

• RFD-1 Spacecraft: RFD.

  Suborbital.

• Transit 7 Spacecraft: Transit. Payload: Transit 5A-3. Mass: 55 kg.

• Reentry 3 Spacecraft: Reentry.

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  Scout Credit: © Mark Wade. 579 bytes. 36 x 252 pixels.

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  NASA launched a Scout rocket with a nose cone of experimental heatshield material from Wallops Island, Va. The rocket was intentionally destroyed when it deviated from its course a few seconds after liftoff. The nose cone had been expected to reenter the atmosphere at 27,934 kilometers (18,600 miles) per hour to test the material's thermal performance under heating loads near those of a lunar reentry.

• Ariel 2 Spacecraft: Ariel. Payload: UK 2 (UK-C). Mass: 68 kg.

  Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B).

• RFD-2 Spacecraft: RFD.

  Suborbital.

• 159 - Wilson, Andrew, Spaceflight, "Scout - NASA's Small Satellite Launcher", 1979, Volume 21, page 446.