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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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