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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Nike-based sounding rockets Rocket Lab Sonda Seliger Rocket Skylark (rocket) V-2 sounding rocket VS-30 family nasa.gov NASA Sounding Rocket Program Handbook...
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Rocket Experiment (ATREX) – five consecutive launches, 80 seconds apart on March 27, 2012, studied the high-altitude jet stream. NASA Sounding Rocket...
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remains one of the most popular sounding rockets. They have been repeatedly used by the Canadian Space Agency and NASA. Black Brant was the result of research...
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Internationale. "NASA Sounding Rocket Program Overview". NASA Sounding Rocket Program. NASA. 24 July 2006. Retrieved 10 October 2006. "Reusable Rockets Set to Explore...
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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 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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The Constellation program (abbreviated CxP) was a crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009...
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Network Overview". nasa.gov. Archived from the original on October 10, 2022. Retrieved October 9, 2022. "Sounding Rockets Program Office". nasa.gov. Archived...
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Jason was an American sounding rocket with 5 stages. The Jason was launched 22 times in 1958. The Jason could carry a payload of 125 pounds (57 kg) to...
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William R. (1971). "Sounding Rocket Resurgence, 1965-1968". NASA SOUNDING ROCKETS, 1958-1968 A Historical Summary (NASA SP-4401). NASA. pp. 61–74. LCCN 70-169175...
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Mesquito (category Sounding rockets of the United States)
American sounding rocket vehicle developed for the NASA Sounding Rocket Program on Wallops Island, Virginia. The Mesquito was developed to provide rocket-borne...
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In the late 1950s, NASA established the Scout program to develop a multistage solid-propellant space booster and research rocket. The U.S. Air Force...
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redesigned for use as a sounding rocket, allowing for more precise flight paths and use of smaller rocket ranges than other sounding rockets required; however...
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Wernher von Braun (category German rocket scientists)
von Braun worked in Nazi Germany's rocket development program. He helped design and co-developed the V-2 rocket at Peenemünde during World War II. The...
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part of NASA's COTS and CRS programs. Able to launch payloads heavier than 8,000 kg (18,000 lb) into low Earth orbit, Antares is the largest rocket operated...
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was not nearly large enough. NASA started examining a number of potential rocket designs under their Nova program. NASA was not alone in studying crewed...
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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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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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North American X-15 (redirect from Nasa X-15)
a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the...
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White Sands Launch Complex 36 (category Rocket launch sites in the United States)
Little Joe 2 rocket for the Apollo Program. The complex continues to be used as one of the primary launch sites for NASA's sounding rocket program, along with...
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Atea-1 Atea-2 HASTE Hwasong 6 Pantera Pakistan's sounding rocket program used a variety of sounding rockets which were renamed in 3 series. Some flights were...
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chemical equilibrium and rocket performance calculations, Cpropep-Web Tool for Rocket Propulsion Analysis, RPA NASA Computer program Chemical Equilibrium...
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Saturn V (redirect from Saturn V rocket)
heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. The rocket was human-rated, had three stages, and...
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missile (ICBM) program was initiated in the late 1950s under the Convair Division of General Dynamics. Atlas was a liquid propellant rocket burning RP-1...
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Blue Origin (section Nuclear rocket program)
provider of lunar lander services for NASA's Artemis program and was awarded a $3.4 billion contract. The four rocket engines the company has in production...
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Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment (category Sounding rockets)
is a NASA funded series of sounding rocket missions to study the Sun in extreme ultraviolet. RAISE is supported by NASA's Sounding Rocket Program at NASA's...
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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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Malemute (category Sounding rockets of the United States)
Keith; NASA. "NASA completes investigation of July 2014 Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket failure". phys.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19. "NASA Types...
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Apollo 1 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA)
2017, the 50th anniversary of the fire, NASA put the hatch from Apollo 1 on display at the Saturn V Rocket Center at Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex...
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