X-Nico

unusual facts about PGM-19 Jupiter



Calxeda

Hewlett-Packard used Calxeda products for a server product known as Moonshot in November 2011, named after the Redstone rocket.

Explorer 2

Following the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) was directed to proceed with the launching of a satellite using the Juno-I four-stage variant of the three-stage Jupiter-C, which had already been flight-tested in nose-cone re-entry tests for the Jupiter IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missile).

Madison County, Alabama

They developed, among others, the Redstone rocket, which was modified to launch the first two Americans into space.

Marine Operations Force

The Beretta 92, Browning Hi-Power Mk.3, Glock 19, Heckler & Koch USP and Walther P99 service pistol is also issued to PGM officers and UNGERIN squad.

Maxwell Hunter

Douglas Aircraft began work on the Thor, an early Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), in late 1955 and put Hunter in charge of that program.

Milton Rosen

Thus the first US satellite, Explorer 1, was launched January 31, 1958 by a substantially larger Army Jupiter-C rocket, based on the Redstone missile, which had been developed by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Huntsville, Alabama under the leadership of Wernher von Braun.

No. 102 Squadron RAF

102 (SM) Squadron RAF (SM standing for "Strategic Missile") in August 1959, equipped with three Thor ballistic missiles, carrying a 1.4 megaton W-49 nuclear warhead, as part of the UK-US strategic deterrent, Project Emily.

PGM College

PGM College, Kangazha, founded in 2005, is a private sector, self-financed educational institution in the village of Kangazha.

PGM-17

PGM-17 Thor, the first operational ballistic missile in the US arsenal.

PGM-17 Thor

Thor was deployed to the UK starting in August 1958, operated by 20 squadrons of RAF Bomber Command under US-UK dual key control.

RAF Catfoss

In 1958 the need to base the new Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile led to a massive concrete launch site being built in the centre of the airfield, under the control of No. 226 Squadron RAF.


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