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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

... test new rotary wing concepts for civil aviation. ''(NASA Release 73-49)'' NASA launched an Aerobee 170A sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range carrying a California Institute of Technology payload to ...

... 233.2-km (144.9-mi) altitude. The rocket and instrumenta­tion performed satisfactorily. An Aerobee 170A from White Sands carried a Massachusetts Institute of Technology x-ray astronomy experiment to a ...

NASA launched an Aerobee 170A sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range carrying an American Science and Engineering, Inc., payload ...

... of the 8-Foot Tunnels Branch at LaRC . ''(NASA Release 73-197)'' NASA launched an Aerobee 170A-E sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range carrying a Goddard Space Flight Center galactic ...

... 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 ...

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