flown missionSuccess
Atlas D | FIRE 1
United States Air ForceLaunch Complex 12 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- FIRE 1
- Type
- Materials Science
- Target orbit
- Suborbital (Sub)
FIRE (Flight Investigation of Re-Entry) was a high-speed reentry heat research program to obtain data on materials, heating rates, and radio signal attenuation on spacecraft reentering the atmosphere at speeds of about 24,500 miles per hour.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- SM-65D Atlas
- Family
- Atlas
- Variant
- D
- Provider
- United States Air Force
- Type
- Government
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 12
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.4806, -80.5419