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Unplanned capture of a 1997 Nissan 'P BOOST X' (P800 STX).
It was first used in the UK from September 2007 onwards.
I was there to capture the street scene on a sunny, clear March day!
An Electron booster with a thermal protection system upgrade in preparation for Rocket Lab's next recovery mission.
A/the(?) Saturn I ‘booster simulator’ being transported from the Manufacturing Engineering Division (building no. 4705), circa 1959.
The same(?)/similar simulator, circa 1961, loaded aboard the barge “Palaemon” at MSFC:
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Unloaded at Cape Canaveral.
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Associated text with the preceding photos:
“On April 17 the Palaemon began its first trial run to Cape Canaveral. The barge carried a water-ballasted tank simulating the size and weight of the S-I booster, plus a dummy S-V stage for the SA-1. The barge reached Cape Canaveral on April 30. After rehearsing movement of the booster along roads at the Cape, the simulator was reloaded aboard the Palaemon. The dummy S-V stage remained at the Cape. On May 3 the barge began its return trip, arriving at the Redstone Arsenal dock May 15.”
Extracted from the “Saturn Illustrated Chronology - Part 2: January 1961 through December 1961”, at:
Comm Booster Station is my fourth creation from the Kre-O A6950 Transformers Scorn Street Chase set. This is for my latest Single Set Challenge. Cannot be built at the same time as Der Skorpion 2 or Scorpion Walker. It could be built at the same time as the Mecha-Taur if you decided to forego the Weapons Pod.
Before I could listen to the old school turntable I got shipped by Jason in Vancouver (and it came to him via Grant Potter)
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I needed to get some audio equipment, namely an amp with phono inputs and some new speakers. Gardner Campbell gave me the ultimate recommendation, but I'm not quite ready to plunk the money down (I will Gardo, one day soon!).
But for now, to listen to the sound via my Harmon Kardon Sound Stix (you can see the nub of one bottom left), I needed a phonograph pre-amp.
I researched and ended up with this Pyle PP444 Mini Pre-Amp -- for $15 it was worth a try. I got this model because it had the necessary grounding screw, to reduce static from the table. The comments on Amazon suggested this one can pick up radio interference, but I am not hearing any.
The box to the left is an Audio Crossplay, used so I can move between the turntable/pre-amp as a source, and air tunes from my wireless airport extreme, which pushes audio from my laptop.
So far it works like a charm, maybe not the best sound, but good enough now for me to enjoy my old vinyl that sat in my Mom's garage for 20 years.
Now to open the trunk, pick some discs, and start broadcasting on #ds106radio….
And Jason, you will appreciate that te first disc on the platter was Troubadour
so i've been away from flickr for forever.
sorry about that everyone. umm... yes. Well, in short it's mainly just 'cause i've been busy with school. lots of school.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V booster is unloaded from the Mariner ship and hauled to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC) to undergo receiving checks and preparations to launch the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) mission for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The mission will launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
The Frozen Booster 4 Pin Set is shown close up, still in its plastic packaging. It consists Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Arendelle Castle in cameos. The pins are flat, oval shaped and 1 1/2'' H x 1 1/4'' W. There are silver snowflakes in the white boarder of the pins. The three characters have their names on the pins, which I think was unnecessary. Plus the names of Anna and Elsa are hard to read due to the fancy over embellished font. However, the pins are all attractive, if a little simple in design, and they are fairly movie accurate. The backing card has a nice scene with Arendelle Castle set against snowy mountains, and standard images of Elsa and Anna. I wish that Anna weren't cross-eyed, and goofy-looking. It reminds me of the image of Rapunzel in the Tangled Ever After merchandise box art. It is an open edition release, and cost a reasonable $22.95.
I bought some newly released Frozen pins and vinylmation at Disneyland today (Nov. 23, 2013). They include the Frozen Princess Jewel Pin (that I had previously bought last Sunday), the Frozen Snowglobe LE 2500 Pin (featuring Olaf in a plastic hemisphere), the Frozen Booster 4 Pin Set (featuring Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Arendelle Castle), and the Frozen Anna and Elsa LE 1500 Vinylmation Set. I will take further photos of the newly released items soon.
My visit to Disneyland on Saturday, November 23, 2013. I was there mainly for limited edition Frozen vinylmation and pins. Even though I'm not a collector of either, I'm liking the Frozen merchandise so much in general that I am getting what I can of things that I don't normally buy. The limited edition Olaf vinylmation was sold out, but they did have the Anna and Elsa set, at the D Street store in Downtown Disney. There were no Frozen artwork in the WonderGround Gallery, but at the Vault 28 they had some awesome looking Disney Princess artwork in the front window displays. Then at the World of Disney, I took a look at their Frozen merchandise display. They had very nice looking Disney Parks costumes for Anna and Elsa that are different than the Disney Store ones. Then in Disneyland Park itself, at the LGM Store Command, they had the limited edition Olaf Snowglobe pin, and the four pin Frozen Booster Pin Set. Finally I got the high score at the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters ride. I had very good day at Disneyland today! Tomorrow I'm going to see an early showing of Frozen at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, so its an all Frozen weekend for me.
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What's Really A Water Pressure Booster?
A water pressure booster pump boosts non water pressure and stream. It provides the additional boost required to attract your water pressure to the desirable level. An water booster pump gives pressure to go water from the storage tank or even during a whole dwelling or business facility.
This sequence of rocket launch uploaded in reverse. Whatever. A SpaceX viewed from Camarillo, California
Boosters from the Steam Siege Elite Trainer Box. Had really bad luck with these. No Volcanion or Mangearna and no Ex Breaks :(
Governor Hogan and First Lady Yumi Hogan Receive Their Second Covid-19 Booster by Patrick Siebert at 100 State Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401
Picture taken last year at the Cannstatter Wasen, a big annual fun fair in Stuttgart.
I entered this along with two other pictures in the recent Photoclub competition, the topic was Movement. This one came seventh (out of 51). I'm chuffed to bits!
ICWA - Revolution 11 - Pierre Booster Fontaine Vs MBM
Pierre Booster Fontaine (c) def. (Pin) MBM
For : Titre XTC (titre extreme) (No Title Change)
Info on the match : Quatrieme match annonce pour le Gala de catch Revolution ! 'MBM' Mathias Caltagirone vs Pierre Booster Fontaine, le match #LegendaryvsPerfect attendu depuis des mois !
Match TLC (tables, echelles et chaises) pour le titre XTC, titre extreme de l'ICWA detenu par Booster.
Video recapitulative : youtu.be/xJgCpuhY1rw
( Cette annee, pour l'edition 2019 du Gala de catch Revolution, l'equipe de l'ICWA - International Catch Wrestling Alliance sera composee de :
- 17 catcheurs
- 2 catcheuses
- 2 arbitres
- 2 commentateurs
Le programme de REVOLUTION 11 sera compose de :
- 2 matchs en preshow
- 7 matchs sur le show
Tous les titres actuellement actifs au sein de l'ICWA seront remis en jeu. Il s'agit :
- du titre Poids-lourds, actuellement detenu par Tristan Archer
- du titre de Champion de France, actuellement detenu par Mike D.
- des titres de Champion d'Europe par equipes, actuellement detenus par Les Artistes, Lucas Di Leo et Peter Fischer
- du titre feminin, actuellement detenu par Camille Grignon
- du titre XTC, actuellement detenu par Pierre Booster FontaineT )
"Now I've got your six."
This is my custom Lego booster frame from Halo Legends: The Package. It works with halo mega bloks figures.
02/12/2021. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson receives his Booster Jab. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson at St Thomas' Hospital for his Covid-19 Booster Jab. Picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street
There is an Atlas-F rocket on display at Kennedy Space Center with a dummy Agena stage on top. In reality, almost all Atlas-Agena rockets were “Atlas-D” models.
Atlas-Agena
The Atlas-Agena was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile. It was a member of the Atlas family of rockets, and was launched 109 times between 1960 and 1978. It was used to launch the first five Mariner unmanned probes to the planets Venus and Mars, and the Ranger and Lunar Orbiter unmanned probes to the Moon. The upper stage was also used as an unmanned orbital target vehicle for the Gemini manned spacecraft to practice rendezvous and docking. However, the launch vehicle family was originally developed for the Air Force and most of its launches were classified DoD payloads.
The Atlas-Agena was a two-and-a-half-stage rocket, with a stage-and-a-half Atlas missile as the first stage, and an RM-81 Agena second stage. Initially, Atlas D missiles, re-designated as the LV-3, were used as the first stage. These were later replaced by the standardized Atlas SLV-3, and its derivatives, the SLV-3A and B. The final Atlas-Agena launch used an Atlas E/F.
The earliest Agena variant was the Agena A in 1959-60, which did not have restart capability. Most of these were flown on Thor-Agena boosters for the Discoverer program and only four used Atlases (Midas 1, Midas 2, Samos 1, and Samos 2), two of which failed.
Late in 1960, Lockheed introduced the uprated Agena B stage which was restartable and had longer propellant tanks for more burn time. It first flew on the Thor and did not make its maiden voyage on an Atlas for months, when Midas 3 launched on July 12, 1961. Atlas-Agenas were then used for DoD and NASA programs, but proved a reliability nightmare as one failure after another happened. In late 1962, after Ranger 5 suffered another booster malfunction (albeit a minor one that ground controllers were able to work around), NASA convened a review board which undertook a wholesale reevaluation of the Atlas-Agena as a launch vehicle. The board found that quality control and checkout procedures were poor, and that this situation was exacerbated by the several dozen configurations of the booster, as each individual DoD and NASA program necessitated custom modifications to the Atlas and Agena, and the latter also differed in its Atlas and Thor variants. The board recommended improved quality control, better hardware, and also establishing one standardized launch vehicle for all space programs.
The end result was the Atlas SLV-3 and Agena D, standardized versions of the Atlas D core and Agena B which would be the same on every launch (at least as far as the Atlas was concerned, Agena Ds often still had customized setups, especially for DoD payloads). The Agena D first flew in July 1963 for DoD launches, but NASA continued using Agena Bs for the remaining Ranger missions. The Atlas SLV-3 meanwhile first flew in August 1964. Dozens of Atlas SLV-3/Agena D boosters were flown over the following years, mostly for the KH-7 Gambit program, also for a few NASA missions. The last Atlas-Agena was flown in 1978 to launch SEASAT, but on a repurposed Atlas F missile rather than the SLV-3.
Launches were conducted from Launch Complexes 12, 13 and 14 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and Launch Complexes 1 and 2 at Point Arguello (now SLC-3 and 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base).
•General Specifications
oFunction: Expendable launch system
oManufacturer: Convair; General Dynamics
oCountry of Origin: United States
•Size
oHeight: 118.0 feet (36.0 m)
oDiameter: 10.0 feet (3.0 m)
oWidth: 16.0 feet (4.9 m)
oMass: 341,000 pounds (155,000 kg)
oStages: 2½
•Capacity
oPayload to LEO: 2,200 pounds (1,000 kg)
oPayload to GEO: 1,540 pounds (700 kg)
oPayload to TLI: 850 pounds (390 kg)
oPayload to Escape: 575 pounds (261 kg)
•Launch History
oStatus: Retired
oLaunch Sites: LC-12, 13 & 14, CCAFS; SLC-3 & 4, Vandenberg
oTotal launches: 109
oSuccesses: 93
oFailures: 13
oPartial Failures: 3
oFirst Flight: February 26, 1960
oLast Flight: June 27, 1978
•Boosters
oNo. Boosters: 1
oWidth: 16.0 feet (4.9 m)
oEngines: 2
oThrust: 233,000 pounds-force (1,040 kN)
oBurn Time: 134 seconds
oFuel: RP-1/LOX
•First Stage
oDiameter: 10.0 feet (3.0 m)
oEngines: 1
oThrust: 67,000 pounds-force (300 kN)
oBurn Time: 5 minutes
oFuel: RP-1/LOX
•Second Stage – Agena D
oLength: 248 inches (6.3 m)
oDiameter: 5.0 feet (1.5 m)
oEngines: 1 Bell Aerospace 8247
oThrust: 16,000 pounds-force (71 kN)
oBurn Time: 265 seconds
oFuel: UDMH/IRFNA
Variants
•Atlas LV-3 Agena-A
oFirst Launch: 1960-02-26
oLast Launch: 1961-01-31
oLaunches: 4
oSuccesses: 2
oFailures: 2
oPartial Failures: 0
oRemarks: Early Atlas-Agena variant flown four times for the Midas and Samos programs
•Atlas LV-3 Agena-B
oFirst Launch: 1961-07-12
oLast Launch: 1965-03-21
oLaunches: 28
oSuccesses: 21
oFailures: 5
oPartial Failures: 2
oRemarks: Enhanced, restartable Agena. Used for a variety of NASA and Air Force programs, including Ranger, Mariner, Samos, and Midas.
•Atlas LV-3 Agena-D
oFirst Launch: 1963-07-12
oLast Launch: 1965-07-20
oLaunches: 15
oSuccesses: 15
oFailures: 0
oPartial Failures: 0
oRemarks: Standardized Agena B used for a variety of NASA and Air Force programs, including Ranger, Mariner, Midas, and Gambit.
•Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D
oFirst Launch: 1964-08-14
oLast Launch: 1967-11-05
oLaunches: 47
oSuccesses: 41
oFailures: 5
oPartial Failures: 1
oRemarks: Standardized SLV-3 Atlas+Agena D used for a variety of NASA and Air Force programs, including Mariner, Vela, and Gambit.
•Atlas SLV-3B Agena-D
oFirst Launch: 1966-04-08
oLast Launch: 1966-04-08
oLaunches: 1
oSuccesses: 1
oFailures: 0
oPartial Failures: 0
oRemarks: One-off Atlas variant used for the first OAO satellite.
•Atlas SLV-3 Agena-B
oFirst Launch: 1966-06-07
oLast Launch: 1966-06-07
oLaunches: 1
oSuccesses: 1
oFailures: 0
oPartial Failures: 0
oRemarks: One-off Atlas variant used for OAO-3
•Atlas SLV-3A Agena-D
oFirst Launch: 1968-03-04
oLast Launch: 1978-04-08
oLaunches: 12
oSuccesses: 11
oFailures: 1
oPartial Failures: 0
oRemarks: Extended tank Atlas. Used for OGO-5 and Canyon/Rhyolite SIGNIT satellites.
•Atlas E/F Agena D
oFirst Launch: 1978-06-27
oLast Launch: 1978-06-27
oLaunches: 1
oSuccesses: 1
oFailures: 0
oPartial Failures: 0
oRemarks: One-off Atlas variant mating the last Agena stage flown to a refurbished Atlas F missile for the launch of Seasat.
Destruct System
All Atlas-Agena vehicles contained an Inadvertent Separation Destruct System to destroy the Agena in the event that it separated prematurely from the Atlas, a situation that could be caused by a booster hard-over or if the Atlas self-destructed in flight. The ISDS charges were mounted on the adapter section between the two vehicles and would activate if a series of tripwires were broken. During the coasting period between staging, the ISDS charges were disabled. The Atlas’s own RSO charges were also wired so that they would destroy both vehicles if activated. Most Agenas also had their own separate RSO charges, although NASA planetary probes omitted them for weight-saving reasons and due to the flight trajectory used, which meant that destruct of the Agena was no longer possible following staging.
Two Atlas-Agena flights involved an intentional destruct of the Atlas (Mariner 1 and Canyon 4) while two others (Midas 6 and Midas 8) resulted in an ISDS destruction of the Agena following in-flight malfunction and self-destruct of the Atlas.
The Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle had a specially modified Range Safety destruct system designed to fire slugs into the propellant tanks rather than the conventional method of rupturing them externally, since an inadvertent activation of the RSO system in orbit could endanger the Gemini astronauts.
The very first Atlas-Agena flight, Midas 1 in February 1960, failed when the unproven ISDS system mistakenly activated at staging, rupturing the Atlas’s LOX tank and causing the breakup of the Agena. The ISDS system was redesigned afterwards and this failure mode did not repeat itself.
Production Launches
Ranger
Ranger block I spacecraft bus was used for the first two Rangers, and also for the first two Mariner interplanetary probes.
The Ranger spacecraft were designed to impact the Moon, returning photographs of the lunar surface until their destruction. The spacecraft was designed in three Blocks, all similar in appearance with a forward antenna and magnetometer, supported by a boom, with more sensors and two solar panels and a dish antenna mounted at the base. The first two Block I spacecraft, Ranger 1 and Ranger 2, were launched on August 23 and November 18, 1961, not to the Moon, but in intended high Earth orbits to test the Atlas-Agena and spacecraft capabilities. However, the Agena malfunctioned on both flights and left the probes trapped in a useless low Earth orbit from which they soon decayed.
The Block II missions, Ranger 3, Ranger 4, and Ranger 5, were launched away from Earth in January, April, and October 1962, but all three failed due to either malfunctions of the probe or launch vehicle difficulties. Ranger 3 missed the Moon entirely. Ranger 4’s solar panels failed to deploy, and the navigation system failed, sending the probe to impact the lunar far side without returning any pictures or data. Ranger 5 suffered an unknown failure which deprived it of power, and it missed the Moon by 725 kilometers (391 nautical miles).
Ranger 6, launched January 30, 1964, successfully impacted the Moon but its cameras failed to return pictures. The last three Rangers were finally successful: Ranger 7 in July 1964, Ranger 8 in February 1965, and Ranger 9 in March 1965.
Mariner
The Mariner spacecraft were built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mariner 1 and Mariner 2 were twins, launched on July 22 and August 27, 1962, to fly by the planet Venus. The first two craft used the same spacecraft bus as the Block I Rangers, each weighing 446 pounds (202 kg) and instrumented to perform radiometric temperature measurements of the planet, and to measure interplanetary magnetic fields and particles. Mariner 1’s Atlas-Agena malfunctioned and went off course, requiring its destruction approximately 5 minutes after liftoff. Mariner 2 successfully made the 3½-month flight, becoming the first spacecraft to fly by another planet. It carried microwave and infrared radiometers, and sensors for cosmic dust, solar plasma and high-energy radiation, and magnetic fields.
Mariner 3 and Mariner 4 used a redesigned spacecraft bus weighing 575 pounds (261 kg), and were launched on November 5 and November 28, 1964 to fly by the planet Mars. Mariner 3 failed after a successful launch when its payload shroud failed to open. These Mariners carried cameras, and Mariner 4 successfully returned pictures of Mars as it flew by.
The 540-pound (240 kg) Mariner 5 was successfully launched to Venus on June 14, 1967 and flew by in October, probing Venus’ atmosphere with radio waves, scanning its brightness in ultraviolet light, and sampling solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.
Gemini
The Agena rocket stage was used as the passive docking target for the Gemini manned space program. After docking, the Agena could also be fired by the astronauts to raise the combined Gemini-Agena spacecraft into a higher orbit. The first attempt at such a docking mission was made for the Gemini 6 mission on October 25, 1965, but the Agena suffered an engine failure and did not reach orbit. This forced postponement and replanning of the Gemini 6A mission, which performed rendezvous with Gemini 7 without docking.
The GATV was first successfully launched for Gemini 8 on March 16, 1966, permitting the first successful docking in space. GATV-8 was later used as the secondary Agena target for Gemini 10, which also docked with its own GATV. GATV-9 failed to orbit when the Atlas suffered a control malfunction, forcing a similar reschedule of the Gemini 9A mission using a backup Augmented Target Docking Adapter atop an Atlas, but with no Agena rocket stage. Two more GATVs were successfully launched and used on Gemini 11 and Gemini 12.
Lunar Orbiter
A series of five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched from August 1966 through August 1967, to help select landing sites for the Apollo manned lunar landing program by mapping the Moon’s surface. Each spacecraft weighed 850 pounds (390 kg) and was 4.9 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, minus the four extended solar panels. All launches were successful, and a total of 99 percent of the surface of the Moon (near and far side) was mapped with resolution as high as 3 ft. 3 in (1 meter). Altogether the Orbiters returned 2180 high resolution and 882 medium resolution frames. The spacecraft also carried micrometeroid sensors, which showed the average micro-meteoroid flux near the Moon to be two orders of magnitude greater than in interplanetary space, but slightly less than the near-Earth environment.
OAO
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory was a series of NASA satellites flown between 1966 and 1972 for astronomy studies. The first OAO (launched April 8, 1966) used a one-off Atlas variant, mating an Agena D to the LV-3C variant of the Atlas and encased in a Centaur-type payload shroud. The remaining three launches used actual Atlas-Centaur vehicles.
ATS
Applications Technology Satellite was a series of NASA satellites flown in 1967-69 to perform various technology tests. Only the first ATS was launched on an Atlas-Agena, the remainder using Atlas-Centaurs. ATS-1 was a partial failure when the Agena failed to restart, leaving it in LEO.
OGO
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory was a series of NASA satellites flown between 1964 and 1969 for magnetosphere studies. These satellites used several different booster types, including Thor-Agenas. Five of them used Atlas-Agenas, and OGO 5 (launched March 4, 1968) was the sole civilian use of the Atlas SLV-3A Agena.
Midas
Missile Defense Alarm System was a series of Air Force satellites flown between 1960 and 1966 for infrared detection of ballistic missile exhaust plumes on Atlas-Agena A, B, and D. There were several failures and overall program performance was poor, but it would give way to the more successful DSP satellites.
Samos
Samos was a series of Air Force satellites flown between 1960 and 1962 for photoreconnaissance on Atlas-Agena A and B. There were several failures, including an on-pad explosion of an Atlas, and the program was cancelled at the end of 1962 without ever demonstrating any operational capability.
Gambit
KH-7 Gambit was a series of Air Force satellites flown between 1963 and 1966 for photoreconnaissance on Atlas-Agena D. Although there were a number of mission failures, Gambit overall was highly successful in comparison with the bungled Samos program and it returned high-value area reconnaissance of the USSR and China before giving way to KH-8 Gambit in 1967.
Rhyolite/Canyon
Rhyolite/Canyon was a series of Air Force satellites flown between 1968 and 1978 for SIGNIT intelligence on Atlas SLV-3A Agena. One Canyon mission failed when its Atlas went off course and had to be destroyed. These were the final launches of Atlas-Agena vehicles aside from the one-off Atlas F/Agena used to launch Seasat.
Vela
Vela consisted of two sets of Air Force satellites flown in 1964-65 to monitor Soviet compliance with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on Atlas-Agena Ds.
Snapshot
Snapshot was a one-off Air Force test of a nuclear satellite flown in 1965 on an Atlas-Agena D.