Thor-Able-Star

Status	retired
Country	United States
Manufacturer	Douglas
Number of launches	19
First launch	1960-04-13
Last launch	1965-08-13

Launches by year:

Latest launches:

Launch date	Launch site	Rocket / Variant	Payload	Status
1965-08-13	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit-O 5 (NNS 30050) / Dodecapole 2 / Long Rod / Tempsat 1 / Surcal 5 / Calsphere 2	success
1965-06-24	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit-O 4 (NNS 30040)	success
1965-03-11	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit-O 3 (NNS 30030) / SECOR 2 (EGRS 2)	pfailure
1964-12-13	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit-O 2 (NNS 30020) / Transit 5E-5	success
1964-10-06	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit-O 1 (NNS 30010) / Dragsphere 1 / Dragsphere 2	success
1964-04-21	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit 5BN-3 / Transit 5E-2	failure
1963-12-05	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit 5BN-2 / Transit 5E-3	success
1963-09-28	Vandenberg	Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II	Transit 5BN-1 / Transit 5E-1	success
1962-10-31	Cape Canaveral	Thor-Able-Star Thor DM-21A Ablestar	ANNA 1B	success
1962-05-10	Cape Canaveral	Thor-Able-Star Thor DM-21A Ablestar	ANNA 1A	failure

Variants:

(This section is under construction)

Thor-Able-Star Thor DM-21A Ablestar

First launch	1960-04-13
Mass	53 t
Height	29 m

Payload capacity:

LEO	150 kg to 1,100 km / 90 deg

Used a restartable upper stage, Ablestar, wider than the Able and used an AJ10-104 engine. This could be shut down and then restarted in space after a coast of up to 20 minutes, allowing the rocket to achieve a more precise orbit.

Thor-Able-Star Thor DSV-2A Ablestar II

First launch	1963-09-28

Identified in some documents as the DSV-6