This article is about the rocket. For the firearms issue, see Delta L problem.
Delta L before the failed attempt to launch Pioneer E
Function
Expendable launch system
Country of origin
USA
Size
Stages
Castor 2 (3)
Long Tank Thor
Delta E
FW-4D
Launch history
Status
Retired
Launch sites
Cape Canaveral LC-17A Vandenberg SLC-2E
Total launches
2
Success(es)
1
Failure(s)
1
First flight
27 August 1969
Last flight
31 January 1972
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The Delta L, Thor-Delta L, or Thrust-Augmented Long Tank Thor-Delta was a US expendable launch system used to launch the Pioneer E and TETR satellites in 1969 (failed) and HEOS satellite in 1972. It was a member of the Delta family of rockets.
The Delta L was a three-stage rocket. The first stage was a Long Tank Thor, a stretched version of the Thor missile, augmented by three Castor-2 solid rocket boosters. The second stage was the Delta E. An FW-1D solid rocket motor was used as the third stage.
The first launch of the Delta L took place on 27 August 1969, from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A defective valve caused plumbing in the hydraulics system to rupture and leak fluid, causing first-stage engine gimbaling to fail around 2+1⁄2 minutes into launch. The stage completed its burn successfully, but threw the second stage far off course. Orbital velocity could not be achieved, and Range Safety sent the destruct command at T+383 seconds. Neither the Pioneer E nor the TETR[1] payloads achieved orbit. The second, and final, Delta L launch was from Space Launch Complex 2E at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, on 31 January 1972. It successfully placed the HEOS-2 satellite into a highly elliptical orbit.[2][3]
^Test satellite for NASA's Manned Space Flight Network see: http://www.astronautix.com/t/tetr.html
^Wade, Mark. "Delta". Archived from the original on 2008-07-24.
^Krebs, Gunter. "Thor Family". Gunter's Space Page. Archived from the original on 2007-08-06. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
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