A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...
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S-Series is a fleet of sounding rockets funded by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that have been in service since the late 1960s. Manufactured...
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series of sounding rockets developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for meteorological and atmospheric study. These sounding rockets are capable...
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German V-2 rockets captured by the United States Army at the end of World War II were used as sounding rockets to carry scientific instruments into the...
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The NASA Sounding Rocket Program (NSRP) is a NASA run program of sounding rockets which has been operating since 1959. The missions carried out by this...
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This is a list of sounding rockets used for suborbital research flights. Gamma Centauro Gradicom-1 Proson-M1 Rigel series Canopus-1, Canopus 2, Castor...
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service in its original role, but later found widespread use as a sounding rocket. It was so successful in this role that several advanced versions were...
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the Southern Hemisphere to reach space after launching its Ātea-1 sounding rocket in November 2009. The payload was not recovered, as it was deemed to...
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ignited a NASA Orion rocket and 2 other sounding rockets. The Orion flew horizontally about 300 feet into the ocean. The sounding rockets rose to around 15...
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on a hypergolic rocket motor, using nitric acid and an amine fuel, developing the LEX sounding rocket. The company flew eight rockets: Once in April 1964...
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"All-Purpose Rocket for Collecting Atmospheric Soundings", also designated Big Boy Rocket or "PWN-6") was the designation of an American sounding rocket, developed...
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The Black Brant is a family of Canadian-designed sounding rockets originally built by Bristol Aerospace, since absorbed by Magellan Aerospace in Winnipeg...
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for research Rocket sled – Test platform pushed by rockets along a track Sounding rocket – Rocket designed to take measurements during its flight Miscellaneous...
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Viking was a series of twelve sounding rockets designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company under the direction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...
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Dart (rocketry) (redirect from Dart (rocket))
A dart is the free flying final stage of a sounding rocket, and contains the payload. Its form is very aerodynamically designed. After the launch stage...
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metres. Rigel sounding rocket Rigel R-09 sounding rocket Rigel rocket launch, December 16, 1967 Rigel sounding rocket Rigel was launched seven times from CELPA...
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Skua is the designation of a British sounding rocket which was launched between 1959 and 1981 in four versions over 300 times. The Skua was developed...
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Centauro. The Centauro series is a family of Argentinian solid-fuel sounding rockets developed by the Instituto de Investigaciones Aeronauticas y Espaciales...
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Thumba (section Rocket launches)
Sounding Rocket (RSR) program to develop indigenously developed and fabricated sounding rockets launched the first single-stage Rohini (RH-75) rocket...
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Seliger Rocket is the designation for the sounding rockets of the Berthold Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH. They were A single-stage...
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two-stage Soviet sounding rocket. As some 6640 of these rockets were built between 1957 and 1990, it was the most used sounding rocket model ever. Payloads...
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Rotating detonation engine (redirect from Rotating detonation rocket engine)
in space for the first time in the world by launching the S-520-31 sounding rocket equipped with a 500 N class RDE in the second stage. The engine used...
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in a variety of missiles and multi-stage sounding rockets, becoming one of the most popular and reliable rocket stages, not only in the United States, but...
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R-2 (missile) (redirect from R-2 rocket)
deployed in mobile units throughout the Soviet Union until 1962. A sounding rocket derivative, the R-2A, tested a prototype of the dog-carrying capsule...
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experimental hybrid-propellant sounding rocket, developed by ONERA. It had the objective of testing a lithergol fueled rocket engine (an hybrid mixture of...
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Punjab Engineering College (redirect from Vyom (sounding rocket))
Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University) (abbreviated PEC or PEC Chandigarh) is a public research & technical institution in Chandigarh. It...
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The Dauphin is a French sounding rocket, flown six times between 1967 and 1979. It consists of a modification of the first stage of the Dragon with a...
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Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andøya Rocket Range off the northwestern coast of Norway. The rocket carried scientific equipment...
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"Ātea-1, Rocket Lab : New Zealand Rocket". Archived from the original on 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2009-11-30. "Ātea-2, Rocket Lab : New Zealand Rocket". Archived...
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Bélier is the designation of a French sounding rocket family. Three versions of the Bélier were launched between 1961 and 1970 at the CIEES launch facility...
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