Project Pilot is an expendable launch vehicle built by US Navy. It stands 4.4 m tall, lifts 1 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 4 July 1958. It has flown 6 times with 0 successes, a success rate of 0.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.
Specification
Vehicle spec sheet
OPS-12/SPEC
ON FILE
Height4.4 m
Diameter0.8 m
Payload to LEO1 kg
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight4 July 1958
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED
As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.
Flight record
Reliability
OPS-12/STAT
ON RECORD
Total flights6
Successful0
Failed6
Success rate0.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
About Project Pilot
The NOTS-EV-1 Pilot, also known as NOTSNIK was an expendable launch system and anti-satellite weapon developed by the United States Navy's United States Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS).
From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.
Bridenstine stands by AFRC center director David McBride in one of Armstrong's mission control rooms that monitor flights, talk with pilots and gather data to project analysis.·NASA / AFRC · public domain·NASA ↗
Pilot Logs First Flight on Another World·NASA / JPL · public domain·NASA ↗
