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Delta A
Delta A was an American expendable launch-vehicle variant in the early Delta rocket family. Introduced in 1962, it retained the basic Thor-Delta architecture while incorporating an upgraded Aerojet main engine, making it an incremental development rather than a completely new rocket. The vehicle belongs to the early space-launch period in which NASA and U.S. industry adapted military-derived propu...
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Delta (Thor-Delta)
The Thor-Delta, recognized as the first iteration of the American Delta rocket family, was an early orbital launch vehicle developed by Douglas Aircraft Company. It was derived from the PGM-17 Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile and supplemented with a modified second stage. First launched on May 13, 1960, it was designed to deploy communications satellites into low Earth orbit. This vehicle...
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