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29-923: APCC may refer to: American Potash and Chemical Company , American chemical manufacturer Anaphase-promoting complex (sometimes abbreviated as APC/C), an enzyme that regulates the spindle checkpoint APCC, former Nasdaq symbol for APC by Schneider Electric , an American manufacturer APEC Climate Center , the Climate Centre for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Asia Pop Comic Convention , an annual comic book fan convention in Metro Manila, Philippines Asian and Pacific Coconut Community , an intergovernmental organization of coconut producing nations Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee ,

58-763: A branch of the Indian National Congress political party in Andhra Pradesh, India Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee , a branch of the Indian National Congress political party in Arunachal Pradesh, India Assam Pradesh Congress Committee , a branch of the Indian National Congress political party in Assam, India Association of Police and Crime Commissioners , a group of elected officials in England and Wales Topics referred to by

87-526: A distance of 225 000 km (140 000 miles), but again a telemetry failure prevented the reception of scientific data. The fourth and final XRM-91 mission in December 1961 also carried particle detectors, and was the only completely successful flight of the initial Blue Scout Junior program. The Blue Scout Junior was regarded by the USAF as the most useful of the various Blue Scout configurations. It

116-499: A spherical NOTS Cetus in a common nose fairing. The XRM-91 also lacked the gyro-stabilization and guidance system of the RM-89 Blue Scout I and RM-90 Blue Scout II, making it a completely unguided rocket. It relied on second-stage fins and two spin motors to achieve a stable flight trajectory. The first launch of an XRM-91 occurred on September 21, 1960, making it actually the first Blue Scout configuration to fly. The flight

145-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages American Potash and Chemical Company American Potash and Chemical Company (sometimes abbreviated as AMPOT ) was a large chemical manufacturer in the United States from the 1920s through the 1960s. It produced various chemicals for US industry and the US military. It was bought by Kerr-McGee in 1967, which reformed it into

174-663: The Dual Air Density Explorer satellites from Vandenberg. The Scout G-1 flew from 1974 until the Scout's retirement in 1994. It was rated to orbit a 210 kg payload. The USAF Scout program was known as HETS (Hyper Environmental Test System) or System 609A, and the rockets were generally referred to as Blue Scout. The prime contractor for the NASA Scout was LTV, but the Blue Scout prime contractor

203-507: The Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation (KMCC) around 1970. The company started by producing borax and potash from Searles Lake , at Trona , California. During World War II it diversified to other chemicals. In 1948, the company was San Bernardino County 's second-largest employer, with 1,600 of Trona's 5,000 residents on the payroll. In the 1950s it bought Eston Chemicals, Western Electrochemical, and

232-697: The NACA , at Langley center . Scout launch vehicles were used from 1961 until 1994. To enhance reliability the development team opted to use "off the shelf" hardware, originally produced for military programs. According to the NASA fact sheet: "... the first stage motor was a combination of the Jupiter Senior and the Navy Polaris ; the second stage came from the Army MGM-29 Sergeant ; and

261-509: The Blue Scout Junior had sufficient impulse to have put a small satellite in low Earth orbit, it was not used as an orbital launch vehicle. The XRM-91 did not resemble the other Scout variants externally, because the usual first Scout stage (an Aerojet General Algol) was not used. Instead, the four-stage Blue Scout Junior used Scout's 2nd and 3rd stages (Castor and Antares) as the first two stages, and added an Aerojet General Alcor and

290-704: The Castor IIA upgrades. The Scout B-1 flew after 1971 and introduced the Altair III upgrades. The Scout D-1 flew in 1972 and introduced the Algol III upgrade. The Scout F-1 flew twice in 1975, and was composed of a Algol-3A first stage, a Castor-2A second stage, a Antares-2B third stage and a Star-20 fourth stage. It successfully launched Small Astronomy Satellite 3 from the San Marco Launch Complex, but failed on launching

319-680: The KMCC which in 2006 was spun off as Tronox . When AMPOT bought the Lindsay Chemical Company it also got the Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago, Illinois . This chemical corporation -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Scout (rocket family) The original Scout (a backronym for Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test system) was designed in 1957 at

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348-561: The Lindsay Chemical Company and further diversified its product line. During the Cold war era it produced ammonium perchlorate for U.S. missile industry, particularly for Falcon , Hawk , Minuteman , Nike Zeus , Pershing , Polaris , Scout , Sergeant , Tartar missiles. In the 1960s it bought a large interest in Compagnie des Potasses du Congo . In 1967 AMPOT was bought by Kerr-McGee. Around 1970 Kerr-McGee reorganized and AMPOT became

377-595: The XRM-89 Blue Scout I. The first XRM-90 launch occurred on 1961-03-03, followed by a second one on 1961-04-12. Both sub-orbital flights were successful, and measured radiation levels in the Van Allen belts . The second Blue Scout II also carried a micrometeorite sampling experiment, but the recovery of the reentry capsule failed. The third XRM-90 was used by NASA in November 1961 for Mercury-Scout 1 . This

406-508: The XRM-89 carried a variety of experiments to measure rocket performance and high-altitude fields and particle radiation. The payload was located in a recoverable reentry capsule, but the capsule sank before it could be recovered from the water. The only other XRM-89 launches (in May 1961 and April 1962) were unsuccessful, and the Blue Scout I program was terminated in 1962. The XRM-90 Blue Scout II

435-813: The following motors: Scout's first-stage motor was based on an earlier version of the Navy's Polaris missile motor; the second-stage motor was developed from the Army's Sergeant surface-to-surface missile; and the third- and fourth-stage motors were adapted by NASA's Langley Research Center; Hampton, VA, from the Navy's Vanguard launch vehicle. Unlike the Thor or Atlas-Agena the Scout was non-military and could be sold to foreign customers. The Scout X-1 first flew successfully on 10 October 1960, after an earlier failure in July 1960. The rocket's first stage had four stabilizing fins, and

464-411: The late 1950s, NASA established the Scout program to develop a multistage solid-propellant space booster and research rocket. The U.S. Air Force also participated in the program, but different requirements led to some divergence in the development of NASA and USAF Scouts. The basic NASA Scout configuration, from which all variants were derived, was known as Scout-X1. It was a four-stage rocket, which used

493-670: The rocket's apogee . NASA used a three-stage Blue Scout Junior configuration (omitting the Cetus 4th stage) as the RAM B. The Italian space research program began in 1959 with the creation of the CRA (Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali) at the University of Rome. Three years later, on 7 September 1962, the university signed a memorandum of understanding with NASA to collaborate on a space research program named San Marco (St. Mark). The Italian launch team

522-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title APCC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=APCC&oldid=1224417436 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

551-477: The third and fourth stage motors were designed by Langley engineers who adapted a version of the Navy Vanguard ." The first successful orbital launch of a Scout, on February 16, 1961, delivered Explorer 9 , a 7 kilograms (15 lb) satellite used for atmospheric density studies, into orbit. The final launch of a Scout, using a Scout G-1, was on May 8, 1994, from Vandenberg Air Force Base . The payload

580-415: The vehicle incorporated a gyro-based guidance system for attitude stabilization to keep the rocket on course. Scout X-1A was an American sounding rocket which was flown in 1962. It was a five-stage derivative of the earlier Scout X-1 , with an uprated first stage, and a NOTS-17 upper stage. Scout X-2 was an American expendable launch system and sounding rocket which was flown twice in 1962. It

609-469: Was Ford Aeronutronics. By using different combinations of rocket stages, the USAF created several different Blue Scout configurations. One of these was the XRM-89 Blue Scout I , which was a three-stage vehicle, using Castor 2 and an Antares 1A stages, but omitting the basic Scout's Altair 4th stage. The first launch of an XRM-89 occurred on 1961-01-07, and was mostly successful. On that flight,

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638-572: Was a four-stage rocket, based on the earlier Scout X-1 , introducing the Algol 1D and Antares IIB stage upgrades. On 1962-08-23 a Scout X-2 was used for the first successful launch of a DMSP satellite, lifting off from Point Arguello near Vandenberg Air Force Base . The Scout X-3 flew after 1962 and introduced the Algol IIA upgrade. The Scout X-4 flew after 1963 and introduced Altair 2 upgrade. The Scout A-1 flew in 1973 and introduced

667-472: Was a rocket of the U.S. Air Force's System 609A Blue Scout family. The XRM-90 was a four-stage rocket, which used the same stages as the basic NASA Scout. It was nevertheless not identical to the latter, because the 4th stage was hidden in a payload fairing with the same diameter as the 3rd stage, and the first stage nozzle used a flared tail skirt between the fins. Externally, the XRM-90 was indistinguishable from

696-501: Was an attempt to orbit a communications payload for Project Mercury , but the rocket failed after 28 seconds of flight. The USAF subsequently abandoned the XRM-89 Blue Scout I and XRM-90 Blue Scout II vehicles, and shifted to the RM-91/SLV-1B Blue Scout Junior instead. The XRM-91 Blue Scout Junior (sometimes called Journeyman B) was a rocket of the U.S. Air Force's System 609A Blue Scout family. Although

725-470: Was planned to make radiation and magnetic field measurements at distances of up to 26 700 km (16 600 miles) from earth, and while the rocket did indeed achieve this altitude, the telemetry system failed so that no data was received. The second launch in November ended with a failure during second stage burn. The third flight was to measure particle densities in the Van Allen belts and reached

754-520: Was the Miniature Sensor Technology Integration Series 2 ( MSTI-2 ) military spacecraft with a mass of 163 kilograms (359 lb). MSTI-2 successfully acquired and tracked a LGM-30 Minuteman missile. The standard Scout launch vehicle was a solid propellant, four-stage booster system, approximately 23 meters (75 ft) in length with a launch weight of 21,499 kilograms (47,397 lb). The Scout A

783-460: Was trained by NASA. The San Marco project was focused on the launching of scientific satellites by Scout rockets from a mobile rigid platform located close to the equator. This station, composed of 3 oil platforms and two logistical support boats, was installed off the Kenya coast, close to the town of Malindi. The Scout rockets have contributed to several pieces of debris over the years, some of which

812-753: Was used (in slightly modified form) between 1962 and 1965 by the Air Force as the SLV-1B/C launch vehicle for suborbital scientific payloads. The SLV-1C was also chosen as the rocket for the MER-6A interim ERCS ( Emergency Rocket Communications System ) vehicle; this provided a reliable and survivable emergency communications method for the United States National Command Authority , using a UHF repeater that would transmit pre-recorded messages to all units within line-of-sight of

841-563: Was used for launches of the Transit NNSS series (Transit-O 6 to 19), placing two satellites in orbit at the same time. Twelve flights were conducted between 21 December 1965 and 27 August 1970. It was also used to launch the British Ariel 3 scientific satellite. Standard payload capability was 122 kg into a low-Earth orbit. Stage 1: Algol Stage 2: Castor Stage 3: Antares Stage 4: Altair In

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