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Image:Aerobee 150A.jpg 300px An Aerobee 150A two-stage sounding rocket being prepared for launch at Wallops Island in 1963. The 1900 lb thrust rocket was expected to reach 152 miles during this flight. Category:Launch Vehicle

... size of x-ray source from deep space could be determined. Other scientific payloads aboard Aerobees had measured Crab Nebula, collected micrometeoroids, taken temperatures aloft, and recorded air densities. In 1952 Air Force Aerobee carried two monkeys and two mice in biomedical experiments. Rocket originally weighed 700 kg (1600 ...

... Harvard's Advanced Management Program. (NASA announcement, Jan. 17/85) NASA successfully launched today an Aerobee liquid-fueled, sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range , New Mexico, marking the end of ... rocket-firing program. NASA's Sounding Rocket Division had launched 536 Aerobee s with a 94% success rate. The Aerobee 's reliability made it the workhorse vehicle for high-altitude studies. Commenting ...

... was inert, the main objectives being to demonstrate compatibility of Aerobee 350 with Aerobee launch-tower rail system and evaluate performance of Aerobee 350 during first-stage ''( Nike )'' boost. Preliminary evaluation of test indicated NASA Goddard Space Flight Center could proceed with plans to launch complete live Aerobee 350 without redesign of the rocket or the launcher rail system. ''(NASA Rpt. um)'' Developmental ...

... Operations Div. ''(Marshall Star, 9/29/65, 1)'' Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC was pushing Aerobee 350 sounding rocket toward operational status to get second- and third-generation upper altitude data ... .5, showing the most significant advantage; for lighter payloads, the factor approaches 2.0, "The Aerobee 350 launched from Wallops Island will carry a payload of 150 lbs. to 290 mi ...

... , carrying 95.7-kg (211-lb) instrumented payload. Primary objectives were to flight-test first Aerobee 170 production vehicle, flight-test new water recovery system and conduct water recovery operation like ... March 7, and flight-qualify new telemetry instrumentation. Rocket and instruments functioned satisfactorily; payload and Aerobee sustainer were recovered. ''(WS Release 70-2)'' Apollo 12 Astronauts Charles Conrad , Jr., Richard F ...

... barrage of 31 sounding rockets-Arcas, Nike-Apache , Nike-Cajun , Nike-Tomahawk , Nike-Iroquois, Aerobee 150 , Aerobee 170 , and Javelin -from Wallops Station to collect data on solar eclipse. Meteorology, ionospheric physics ... Nike-Tomahawk , and Pitot probe on a Nike-Apache -were partial successes. Of three supporting Aerobee 150 sounding rocket launches from White Sands Missile Range WSMR two experiments were successful and ...

... in support of upper atmospheric re­search." She developed the Aerobee Jr. sounding rocket, co­developed Aerobee-Hi 150 , and directed improvement of Aerobee ­Hi 150A , all used extensively in IGY. ''(FWA Release ...

... radiation in ultraviolet and x-ray regions were launched for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ; Aerobee 150 sounding rocket equipped with spectrophotometric instruments to measure abso­lute intensity of spectral features ... of composition of the ionosphere. At White Sands Missile Range , GSFC project for eclipse was Aerobee 150 sounding rocket equipped with coronagraph to photo­graph sun's corona, ultraviolet spectrometer aimed ...

... Central Radio Propagation of National Bureau of Standards. ''(M&R, 10/26/64,23)'' NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket was launched from White Sands, N. Mex., to 119-mi. altitude in ... sensors. Rocket and instrumentation performance were considered good. This was the 500th launch of an Aerobee liquid-propelled sounding rocket, the booster that carried first U.S. rhesus monkeys into space on high-altitude flights in 1951 and 1952. Aerobee was outgrowth of rocket program begun in 1946 by what is now Aerojet-General Corp ...

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