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Vehicle family profile

Scout

Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.

Manufacturer unknownRetired
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Variants
13
Canonical variants linked to this family.
Historical missions
65
Missions in the public mission table with actual launch dates.
Peak listed capacity
Unknown
Maximum payload capacity across listed variants and orbits.

Launch Cadence

Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.

YearHistorical missionsForecast launches
196850
196920
197030
197150
197210
197310
197410
197610

Performance Specs

Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.

VariantOrbitCapacityAltitudeInclinationSource

No performance specs

No structured payload capacity rows are linked to this vehicle family.

Recent Missions

Latest launched missions using variants in this family.

MissionVariantLaunch
P76-5 Mission
Scout B-1
May 22, 1976
Ariel 5 Mission
Scout B-1
Oct 15, 1974
NNS O-20 (N-15)
Scout A-1
Oct 30, 1973
Triad

Variants

Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.

VariantStagesMissionsStatus
Blue Scout II
Not stated1Retired
Scout A
Not stated11Retired
Scout A-1
Not stated1Retired
Scout B
Not stated20Retired
Scout B-1 F
Sep 2, 1972
Ariel 4 Mission
Scout B-1 F
Dec 11, 1971
Explorer 45
Scout B
Nov 15, 1971
Eole Mission
Scout B-1 F
Aug 16, 1971
Explorer 44
Scout B
Jul 8, 1971

Forecasted Missions

Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.

MissionVariantAnnounced

No forecasted missions

No upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family.

Scout B-1
Not stated2Retired
Scout B-1 F
Not stated3Retired
Scout X-1
Not stated4Retired
Scout X-2
Not stated1Retired
Scout X-2B
Not stated1Retired
Scout X-2M
Not stated3Retired
Scout X-3
Not stated5Retired
Scout X-3M
Not stated1Retired
Scout X-4
Not stated12Retired
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Mentions
141
All verified mentions of this launch vehicle family in source documents.
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Quantum Space projects having more than 40 Scout spacecraft in service throughout cislunar space by 2032.

PlanGrowthValue 3.6Dec 13, 2022Quantum Space raises $15 million for cislunar spacecraft

SCOUT’s in-space products and services were first launched in June 2021.

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PlanCapabilityValue 2.6Aug 28, 2022SCOUT wins two STTR awards from U.S. Space Force SpaceWERX

SCOUT was awarded a $44,500,000 contract for the Tetra-5 mission through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) in collaboration with Hera Systems and Booz Allen Hamilton and led by Orion Space Solutions.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 5.0Aug 28, 2022SCOUT wins two STTR awards from U.S. Space Force SpaceWERX

SCOUT’s two STTR Phase I awards under Orbital Prime are for Real-time Autonomous Uncertainty and Risk Monitoring and for Robust Optical Tracking integration into Real-time Orbital Determination (RTOD).

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Aug 28, 2022SCOUT wins two STTR awards from U.S. Space Force SpaceWERX

SCOUT and Benchmark Space Systems have shared missions in the past and have synergies that create opportunities to work cooperatively to deliver pre-integrated, bundled solutions to the market.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 2.0Aug 9, 2022Benchmark Space Systems intends to keep popular orbits safer with their new Collision Avoidance Kit (CoLA)

The first SCOUT Vision payload launched in June 2021 on an Orbit Fab on-orbit refueling spacecraft and is currently in operation.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jul 22, 2022Scout wins defense contract to demonstrate utility of commercial data from sensors in space

Scout estimates deploying more than 100 OVER-Sat systems by 2026 to provide continuous observation and coverage of LEO.

PlanCapabilityGrowthValue 4.0Jun 17, 2022Getting SSA off the ground

Momentus selected Scout to deliver spacecraft vision capabilities for upcoming missions and Scout won a $50,000 U.S. Air Force contract to demonstrate space-collected data for debris tracking and collision predictions.

RelationshipsFinancialCapabilityPlanValue 4.6Jun 17, 2022Getting SSA off the ground

Scout plans to operate its own six-unit cubesats named OVER-Sat and plans the first OVER-Sat mission in the second quarter of 2023.

PlanCapabilityGrowthValue 4.0Jun 17, 2022Getting SSA off the ground

Scout deployed its first SSA payload, Scout-Vision, to orbit in July 2021 onboard Tanker-001 Tenzing, Orbit Fab’s satellite refueling demo spacecraft.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Jun 17, 2022Getting SSA off the ground

The first phase of the SCOUT exercises will begin in mid-2022 and will be spread over a few months as a cycle of rapid sprint discovery events leading to a Phase 2 main experimentation event.

PlanGeneralValue 2.5Jun 16, 2022Kleos’ fourth cluster manifest to launch on the next SpaceX Transporter Mission

The first phase of the SCOUT exercises will begin mid-2022 and will run over a period of 3–6 months as a cycle of rapid sprint discovery events leading to a Phase 2 main experimentation event.

PlanValue 3.2Jun 14, 2022Kleos’ fourth cluster manifest to launch on the next SpaceX transporter mission

SCOUT’s in-space products and services were first launched in June 2021 to allow spacecraft to see and understand objects around them.

CapabilityPlanValue 3.0Jun 6, 2022NexGen SDA services will be the result of SCOUT + LEOcloud collaborations

SCOUT Inc. and LEOcloud Inc. have signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on enhancing space operations safety.

RelationshipsValue 2.8Jun 6, 2022NexGen SDA services will be the result of SCOUT + LEOcloud collaborations

SCOUT's real-time navigation systems include precise, remote state and attitude estimation.

CapabilityValue 3.4Jun 1, 2022SCOUT wins NASA SBIR award

SCOUT's control systems are designed to integrate multiple control system inputs and data sources to improve tracking performance during proximity operations.

CapabilityValue 3.6Jun 1, 2022SCOUT wins NASA SBIR award

SCOUT's relative navigation technology is applicable for space missions such as space debris management, supplying the International Space Station, on-orbit satellite maintenance, and inter-satellite networking.

CapabilityValue 2.6Jun 1, 2022SCOUT wins NASA SBIR award

SCOUT Inc. is developing autonomous proximity operations and spacecraft awareness services.

CapabilityValue 2.6Jun 1, 2022SCOUT wins NASA SBIR award

SCOUT is developing real-time orbit determination systems that integrate on-board GPS signal measurement and analysis for improved navigation.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jun 1, 2022SCOUT wins NASA SBIR award

SCOUT's fault-tolerant and robust controllers facilitate faster and more efficient control energy consumption during proximity operations compared to conventional controllers.

CapabilityValue 3.0Jun 1, 2022SCOUT wins NASA SBIR award