Scout A

Built & Operated By
Vought
Commercial · founded 1917
Family
Scout
variant A
Maiden Flight
22 DEC 1965
About
The Scout family of rockets were were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the first orbital launch vehicle to be entirely composed of solid fuel stages.
Vehicle Specifications
Height
25 m
Diameter
1.01 m
Launch Mass
17 T
Thrust
513 kN
Stages
4
Configuration
Expendable
Launch Record
Total Launches
11
Successful
11
Failed
0
Consecutive
11
Performance
To LEO
122 kg
Launch Cost
$8.6M