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.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 513 kN
- Height
- 25 m
- Diameter
- 1.01 m
- Launch mass
- 17 t
- Stages
- 4
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 103 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
12
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
91.7%
11 of 12
Current success streak
8
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Scout X-4 | FR-1 — Success
- Scout X-4 | Solrad 8 — Success
- Scout X-4 | Beacon Explorer C — Success
- Scout X-4 | San Marco 1 — Success
- Scout X-4 | Explorer 24 & 25 — Success