The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1949, the latest event was in 2008
Human Spaceflight:
NONE
Military and Classified Programs:
1963 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, GD Atlas/Lockheed Agena D, SLC4W, VAFB
1989 – LAUNCH: USA 45, MM Titan II/SLV, SLC4W, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
2003 – Handling incident with NOAA-N spacecraft at Sunnyvale
Commercial Programs:
1996 – LAUNCH: LM Inmarsat 3 F2, Proton-K/DM-2, LC81/23, Baikonur, Kazakhstan
2008 – LAUNCH: GeoEye-2, ULA Delta 7420-10C, SLC2W, VAFB
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1949 – LAUNCH FAILURE: Viking 2 Aeronomy/Photography mission, Martin Viking 2, LC33, White Sands, New Mexico
1958 – LAUNCH: Lockheed X-17, Platform AVM1, Atlantic – Argus III
1962 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A3, LC29A, CCAFS
1977 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN625, ETR
Other:
1963 – NASA and DoD announce a new agreement on procurement and usage of Lockheed Agena upper stages (Agena usage at CCAFS assigned to NASA, Agena usage at VAFB assigned to DoD)
The photo today is a Lockheed X-17 being readied for launch from the USS Norton Sound in the south Atlantic as part of the three-launch Argus nuclear test program, with the last launch taking place on this da