
Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The rockets used Thor first stages and Agena second stages. They are thus cousins of the more-famous Thor-Deltas, which founded the Delta rocket family.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 1,444 kN
- Height
- 32.9 m
- Diameter
- 2.44 m
- Launch mass
- 91 t
- Stages
- 3
- Launch cost
- $19.56M
- LEO capacity
- —
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
30
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
96.7%
29 of 30
Current success streak
18
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
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Poppy 9A,B,C,D — Success
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | ASTEX — Success
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Strawman 3 — Success
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Nimbus 4 — Success
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | SERT 2 — Success