Vanguard (rocket)

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Launch summary

Vanguard TV-0 Vanguard TV-1 Vanguard TV-2 Nikita Khrushchev Vanguard TV-3

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Overview

Launch vehicle Satellite Sputnik crisis Sputnik 1 Vanguard TV-3

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Specifications

Isp LOX Kerosene X-405 UDMH

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Burn time: 144 seconds · 120 seconds · 33 seconds: 151 · 38 seconds: 151
Country of origin: United States
Diameter: 1.14 meters (3 ft 9 in) · 1.14 m (3 ft 9 in) · 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in)
Empty mass: 811 kg (1,788 lb) · 694 kg (1,530 lb) · 31 kg (68 lb) · 23 kg (51 lb): 151
Failure: 8
First flight: 23 October 1957 (Vanguard 1: 17 March 1958)

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Burn time · 4

Vanguard (rocket) → 120 seconds, 144 seconds, 33 seconds: 151, 38 seconds: 151

Empty mass · 4

Vanguard (rocket) → 23 kg (51 lb): 151, 31 kg (68 lb), 694 kg (1,530 lb), 811 kg (1,788 lb)

Gross mass · 4

Vanguard (rocket) → 1,990 kg (4,390 lb), 194 kg (428 lb), 229 kg (505 lb): 151, 8,090 kg (17,840 lb)

Height · 4

Vanguard (rocket) → 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), 13.4 m (44 ft), 21.9 meters (72 ft), 5.8 m (19 ft)

Powered by · 4

Vanguard (rocket) → 1 33KS2800, 1 Aerojet General AJ10-37, 1 General Electric GE X-405, 1 X248

Propellant · 4

Vanguard (rocket) → LOX / Kerosene (RP-1), Polysulfide/AP (APCP), Solid double base propellant, UDMH / Nitric acid (IWFNA)

Specific impulse · 4

Vanguard (rocket) → 238 s (2.33 km/s): 151, 248 s (2.43 km/s), 251 s (2.46 km/s): 151, 261 s (2.56 km/s)

Diameter · 3

Vanguard (rocket) → 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in), 1.14 m (3 ft 9 in), 1.14 meters (3 ft 9 in)

Maximum thrust · 3

Vanguard (rocket) → 10,400 N (2,300 lbf), 125,000 N (28,000 lbf), 32,600 N (7,300 lbf)

Mass · 2

Vanguard (rocket) → 10,050 kilograms (22,160 lb), 11.3 kg (25 lb)

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Vanguard (rocket)	Burn time	144 seconds	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Burn time	120 seconds	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Burn time	33 seconds: 151	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Burn time	38 seconds: 151	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Country of origin	United States	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Diameter	1.14 meters (3 ft 9 in)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Diameter	1.14 m (3 ft 9 in)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Diameter	0.8 m (2 ft 7 in)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Empty mass	811 kg (1,788 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Empty mass	694 kg (1,530 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Empty mass	31 kg (68 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Empty mass	23 kg (51 lb): 151	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Failure	8	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	First flight	23 October 1957 (Vanguard 1: 17 March 1958)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Function	Satellite launch vehicle	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Gross mass	8,090 kg (17,840 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Gross mass	1,990 kg (4,390 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Gross mass	194 kg (428 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Gross mass	229 kg (505 lb): 151	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Height	21.9 meters (72 ft)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Height	13.4 m (44 ft)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Height	5.8 m (19 ft)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Height	1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Last flight	18 September 1959	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Launch sites	Cape Canaveral, LC-18A	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Manufacturer	Glenn L. Martin Company	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Mass	10,050 kilograms (22,160 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Mass	11.3 kg (25 lb)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Maximum thrust	125,000 N (28,000 lbf)	1.00	infobox
Vanguard (rocket)	Maximum thrust	32,600 N (7,300 lbf)	1.00	infobox

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