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    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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    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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    The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI, is a sounding rocket payload built by UC Berkeley and led by Säm Krucker to test high energy grazing-incidence...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • million from Kushiro Manufacturing. The initial rocket the company is developing is the MOMO sounding rocket: First launch: 30 July 2017 (failure) First successful...
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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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    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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    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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  • "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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    Vikram S (category Rocket launches in 2022)
    privately built rocket. Its maiden flight lifted on 18 November 2022 at 11 A.M. from Sounding Rocket Complex, Sriharikota. The rocket was designed and...
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    R-1 (missile) (redirect from R-1 rocket)
    Soviet space program V-2 sounding rocket R-2 (missile) List of missiles Spaceflight before 1951 Soviet rocketry Strategic Rocket Forces Kudryashov, V. A...
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  • 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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    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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    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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  • WIRES (WInged REusable Sounding rocket) is a Japanese project developing a winged single-stage reusable suborbital rocket as a test bed for a reusable...
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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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  • KSR-2 (Korean Sounding Rocket-2) is a South Korean sounding rocket designed by KARI. Payload: 150 kg Apogee: 160 km Thrust: 86 kN Weight: 2000 kg Diameter:...
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    Australian sounding rocket. It was first launched from the Woomera Test Range in October 1957. It was a 8.2-metre-long (27 ft) two-stage rocket developed...
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    Punjab Engineering College (abbreviated PEC or PEC Chandigarh) is a public research & technical institution in Chandigarh. It was founded in 1921 in Lahore...
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    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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    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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