The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1951, the latest was in 2024
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight
2003 – LAUNCH: STS-107 (Columbia) launched, LC-39A, KSC – 7 person crew, Spacehab/Microgravity research; Columbia and crew were lost on re-entry on February 1, 2003. Crew: Rick Husband, William McCool, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon (Israel)
Military and Classified Programs
1963 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Corona 59, Thor/Lockheed Agena B, SLC1E, VAFB
2002 – LAUNCH: LM Milstar 2-F3, LM TitanIVB(401)/Centaur, LC40, CCAFS
2024 – The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to build 18 space vehicles as part of its Tranche 2 Tracking Layer constellation. Lockheed Martin will provide 16 wide field of view missile warning/missile tracking space vehicles with infrared sensors and two space vehicles with missile defense infrared sensors that can generate fire control-quality tracks to provide preliminary missile defense mission capabilities. This firm-fixed price, other transaction agreement has a total potential value of $890 million.
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite Programs
NONE
Commercial Programs
1972 – LAUNCH: RCA Satcom 4, Delta 3910/PAM, LC17B, CCAFS
Test, ICBM, FBM programs
1951 – Project MX-1593 (Project Atlas) begins
1959 – LAUNCH FAILURE: GD Atlas B, LC-14, CCAFS (FAILURE)
1969 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas F/Trident, 576-A3, VAFB
1990 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident D-5, SSBN-734, ETR – MILESTONE: 35 years ago
Other
NONE
The photos today are of the launch of STS-107 (Columbia), its crew and an image of the SpaceHab module in orbit in 2003. Columbia and its crew were lost on re-entry on February 1, 2003. More information will be noted on that day in the events. Photo Credits: NASA
