The Scout (Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test) rockets are a set of launch vehicles designed to yeet small satellites into orbit from 1961 until 1994.
It’s not just the United States Congress that loves a good backronym - today we’ve got the NASA rocket family, Scout (Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test).
The Scout rockets are a set of launch vehicles designed to yeet (yes, written by a millennial, good guess) small satellites into orbit from 1961 until 1994. The Scout was the only rocket with four solid-fuel rocket stages until the Lambda 4S was launched nine years later.
Its first launch delivered Explorer 9 (presumably in time for the Space Disco) and while 15lb is pretty hefty for a disco ball, by 1991 the rockets were carrying over 350lbs.
