List of Thor-Able launches
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| Date/Time (UTC) |
Rocket | S/N Serial number A serial number is a unique number assigned for identification which varies from its successor or predecessor by a fixed discrete integer value... |
Launch Site | Payload | Function | Orbit | Outcome | Remarks |
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1957 |
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| 1957-01-26 | Thor DM-18 PGM-17 Thor Thor was the first operational ballistic missile of the U.S. Air Force . Named after the Norse god of thunder, it was deployed in the United Kingdom between 1959 and September 1963 as an intermediate range ballistic missile with thermonuclear warheads. Thor was in height and in diameter. It was... |
Thor 101 | CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads... LC-17B |
Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | Maiden flight of Thor, first launch from LC-17, exploded at liftoff | |
| 1957-04-20 04:33 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 102 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1957-08-30 | Thor DM-18 | Thor 104 | CCAFS LC-17A | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | First launch from LC-17A | |
| 1957-09-20 | Thor DM-18 | Thor 105 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1957-10-03 17:14 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 107 | CCAFS LC-17A | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1957-10-11 16:33 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 108 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1957-10-24 16:32 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 109 | CCAFS LC-17A | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1957-12-07 22:11 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 112 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1957-12-19 20:12 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 113 | CCAFS LC-17A | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
1958 |
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| 1958-01-28 20:16 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 114 | CCAFS LC-17A | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1958-02-28 13:08 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 120 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1958-04-19 13:30 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 121 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1958-04-24 00:10 |
Thor DM-18 Able Thor-Able The Thor-Able was an American expendable launch system and sounding rocket used for a series of re-entry vehicle tests and satellite launches between 1958 and 1960. It was a two stage rocket, consisting of a Thor IRBM as a first stage, and a Vanguard-derived Able second stage. On some flights, an... |
Thor 116 | CCAFS LC-17A | RTV test | Suborbital | Failure | Maiden flight of Thor-Able, first stage turbopump failed | |
| 1958-06-04 21:17 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 115 | CCAFS LC-18B Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 18 Launch Complex 18 is a launch complex at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida that was active during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was used by Viking, Vanguard, Thor and Scout rockets... |
Missile test | Suborbital | Success | First launch from LC-18B | |
| 1958-06-13 15:06 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 122 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1958-07-10 15:06 |
Thor DM-18 Able | Thor 118 | CCAFS LC-17A | RTV test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1958-07-13 06:36 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 123 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1958-07-23 22:13 |
Thor DM-18 Able | Thor 119 | CCAFS LC-17A | RTV test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1958-07-26 06:40 |
Thor DM-18 | Thor 126 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1958-08-06 | Thor DM-18 | Thor 117 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | Final flight of Thor DM-18 missile | |
| 1958-08-17 12:18 |
Thor DM-18 Able-I Thor-Able The Thor-Able was an American expendable launch system and sounding rocket used for a series of re-entry vehicle tests and satellite launches between 1958 and 1960. It was a two stage rocket, consisting of a Thor IRBM as a first stage, and a Vanguard-derived Able second stage. On some flights, an... |
Thor 127 | CCAFS LC-17A | Pioneer Pioneer 0 Pioneer 0 was a failed United States space probe that was designed to go into orbit around the Moon, carrying a television camera, a micrometeorite detector and a magnetometer, as part of the first International Geophysical Year science payload... (0) |
Lunar orbiter | High suborbital | Failure | Maiden flight of Thor-Able I, exploded 77 seconds after launch |
| 1958-10-11 08:42:13 |
Thor DM-18 Able-I | Thor 130 | CCAFS LC-17A | Pioneer 1 Pioneer 1 On October 11, 1958, Pioneer 1 became the first spacecraft launched by NASA, the newly formed space agency of the United States. The flight was the second and most successful of the three Thor-Able space probes.- Spacecraft design :... |
Lunar orbiter | High suborbital | Failure | Third stage underperformed |
| 1958-11-05 08:53 |
Thor DM-18A PGM-17 Thor Thor was the first operational ballistic missile of the U.S. Air Force . Named after the Norse god of thunder, it was deployed in the United Kingdom between 1959 and September 1963 as an intermediate range ballistic missile with thermonuclear warheads. Thor was in height and in diameter. It was... |
Thor 138 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | Maiden flight of Thor DM-18A | |
| 1958-11-08 08:42:13 |
Thor DM-18 Able-I | Thor 129 | CCAFS LC-17A | Pioneer 2 Pioneer 2 Pioneer 2 was the last of the three project Able space probes designed to probe lunar and cislunar space. Shortly after launch at 07:30:00 UTC on November 8, 1958, the third stage of the launch vehicle separated but failed to ignite, and Pioneer 2 did not achieve its intended lunar orbit... |
Lunar orbiter | High suborbital | Failure | Third stage failed to ignite |
| 1958-11-26 09:09 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 140 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1958-12-06 00:41 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 145 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1958-12-16 23:44:45 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 151 | VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base, located approximately northwest of Lompoc, California. It is under the jurisdiction of the 30th Space Wing, Air Force Space Command .... LC-75-1-1 |
Missile test | Suborbital | Success | First Thor launch from Vandenberg AFB | |
| 1958-12-17 04:00 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 146 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1958-12-31 02:00 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 138 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
1959 |
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| 1959-01-23 | Thor DM-18 Able-II | Thor 128 | CCAFS LC-17A | RVX test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1959-01-30 23:53 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 154 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-02-28 07:58 |
Thor DM-18 Able-II | Thor 131 | CCAFS LC-17A | RVX test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-02-28 21:49:16 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A Thor-Agena 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. The first attempted launch of a Thor-Agena was in January 1959... |
Thor 163 Agena 1022 |
VAFB LC-75-3-4 | Discoverer 1 Discoverer 1 Discoverer 1 was the first of a series of satellites which were part of the Corona reconnaissance satellite program. It was launched on a Thor-Agena rocket on February 28, 1959 at 1:49 PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was a prototype of the KH-1 satellite, but did not contain... |
Reconnaissance | LEO | Success | Maiden flight of Thor-Agena |
| 1959-03-21 06:19 |
Thor DM-18 Able-II | Thor 132 | CCAFS LC-17A | RVX test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-03-22 00:58 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 158 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-03-27 04:02 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 162 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-03-27 04:02 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 162 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-04-08 06:35 |
Thor DM-18 Able-II | Thor 133 | CCAFS LC-17A | RVX test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-04-13 21:18:39 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A | Thor 170 Agena 1018 |
VAFB LC-75-3-4 | Discoverer 2 | Reconnaissance | LEO | Success | |
| 1959-04-16 20:46 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 161 | VAFB LC-75-2-8 | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-04-23 05:30 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 176 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-04-25 05:00 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 164 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-05-12 17:35 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 187 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-05-21 06:40 |
Thor DM-18 Able-II | Thor 135 | CCAFS LC-17A | RVX test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-05-23 02:42 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 184 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-06-03 20:09:20 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A | Thor 174 Agena 1020 |
VAFB LC-75-3-4 | Discoverer 3 | Reconnaissance | LEO | Failure | Loss of signal after upper stage ignition |
| 1959-06-11 06:44 |
Thor DM-18 Able-II | Thor 137 | CCAFS LC-17A | RVX test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-06-16 21:45 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 191 | VAFB LC-75-2-7 | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1959-06-25 22:47:45 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A | Thor 179 Agena 1023 |
VAFB LC-75-3-5 | Discoverer 4 | Reconnaissance | LEO | Failure | Second stage underperformed |
| 1959-06-26 | Thor DM-18A | Thor 198 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-06-30 02:37 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 194 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-07-21 07:33 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 203 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1959-07-24 12:47 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 202 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-08-03 21:41 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 175 | VAFB LC-75-1-1 | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-08-06 02:48 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 208 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-08-07 14:24:20 |
Thor DM-18 Able-III | Thor 134 | CCAFS LC-17A | Explorer 6 Explorer 6 Explorer 6 was a United States satellite launched on August 7, 1959. It was a small, spheroidal satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies, galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetism, radio propagation in the upper atmosphere, and the flux of micrometeorites... |
Radiation | HEO | Success | |
| 1959-08-13 19:00:08 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A | Thor 192 Agena 1029 |
VAFB LC-75-3-4 | Discoverer 5 | Reconnaissance | LEO | Success | |
| 1959-08-14 09:00 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 204 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-08-14 19:36:04 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 190 | VAFB LC-75-2-6 | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1959-08-19 19:24:44 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A | Thor 200 Agena 1028 |
VAFB LC-75-3-5 | Discoverer 6 | Reconnaissance | LEO | Success | |
| 1959-08-27 12:30 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 216 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-09-12 | Thor DM-18A | Thor 217 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-09-17 14:34 |
Thor DM-18 Able-II | Thor 136 | CCAFS LC-17A | Transit 1A | Navigation | LEO | Failure | Third stage malfunctioned |
| 1959-09-17 21:09 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 228 | VAFB LC-75-1-2 | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-09-22 18:00 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 222 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-10-06 16:41 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 235 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-10-06 18:26 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 239 | VAFB LC-75-2-8 | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-10-14 04:15 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 221 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-10-21 22:57 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 220 | VAFB LC-75-1-1 | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-10-29 02:12 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 230 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-11-03 | Thor DM-18A | Thor 238 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-11-07 20:28:41 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A | Thor 206 Agena 1051 |
VAFB LC-75-3-4 | Discoverer 7 | Reconnaissance | LEO | Success | |
| 1959-11-12 19:24 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 181 | VAFB LC-75-1-2 | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-11-19 | Thor DM-18A | Thor 244 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-11-20 19:25:24 |
Thor DM-18 Agena-A | Thor 212 Agena 1050 |
VAFB LC-75-3-5 | Discoverer 8 | Reconnaissance | LEO | Failure | Orbit too eccentric Orbital eccentricity The orbital eccentricity of an astronomical body is the amount by which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle, where 0 is perfectly circular, and 1.0 is a parabola, and no longer a closed orbit... for use of return capsule |
| 1959-12-01 17:00 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 254 | CCAFS LC-18B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||
| 1959-12-02 05:29 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 265 | VAFB LC-75-1-1 | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1959-12-15 02:14 |
Thor DM-18A | Thor 185 | VAFB LC-75-1-2 | Missile test | Suborbital | Failure | ||
| 1959-12-17 | Thor DM-18A | Thor 255 | CCAFS LC-17B | Missile test | Suborbital | Success | ||