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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

... impact and pictures in this area. ''(NYT, 7/29/64; NASA Release 64-176)'' NASA Aerobee 300 sounding rocket with Univ. of Michigan payload to measure electron and neutral particle temperatures in ...

... week and few failures out of 900 launches to date. Aerobees carrying scientific payloads to altitudes as high as 480 km (300 mi) had been launched by NASA, Air Force, Navy, and ... 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 ...

... had originally stated the program would require 2,400 satellites, they had corrected this to 300, making the program not a seemingly impractical proposal but one readily affordable within fiscal ... 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. ...

... PIONEER VI had telemetered 250 million readings from its six scientific instruments covering 3,300 separate measurements and taken 2.5 million readings of 100 engineering measurements. It ... the neutral atmosphere, ionosphere, and solar radiation intensities at 120-to 380-mi. altitudes. Aerobee 150A sounding rocket with 180-lb. AFCRL-instrumented payload to measure solar ultraviolet ...

... .269-billion NASA appropriation. ''(CR, 8/13/70, H8238-55)'' NASA launched two Aerobee sounding rockets. Aerobee 350 launched from Wallops Station carried Univ. of Michigan experiment to conduct ... experiment scheduled to fly on NASA's Apollo Telescope Mount, successfully photographed sun for 300 secs and recorded excellent scientific data. ''(SR list; Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC ...

... , 11/30/68; SBD, 12/2/68, 129)'' NASA Aerobee 150 A sounding rocket successfully launched from NASA Wallops Station carried 300-lb payload containing two white rats to 101-mi ''(162 ... ground stations. Payload impacted 69 mi downrange in the Atlantic. ''(wS Release 68-21)'' NASA Aerobee 150 MI sounding rocket launched from WSMR carried Univ. of Colorado experiment to 121-mi ...

... Applications Technology Satellites ATS I was successfully launched Dec. 6, 1966, into a 22,300-mi-altitude near-synchronous orbit over the Pacific and was still operating flawlessly. ... for x rays from recurrent nova T Pyxides. This was first flight of new Aerobee configuration Mod I rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. ''(NASA Rpt SRL)'' Chairman James McCormack ...

... D booster. ''(UPI, W Post, 12/6/67, A24)'' NASA Aerobee 150A sounding rocket launched from NASA Wallops Station carried 300-lb payload containing two white rats to 85-mi (137-km ... ; no recovery was attempted. ''(WS Release 67-36; NASA Release 67-290; NASA Rpt SRL)'' Aerobee 150 sounding rocket launched by NASA from White Sands Missile Range WSMR carried 14-in ...

... ranging widely in size and type, from boosted Darts and Arcas to Nike combinations, Aerobee s, Shotputs, British Skylarks, and French Centaure s. Ten cooperating countries made substantial contributions ... an international treaty which limited liability of airline involved in international -flight crash to $8,300 per passenger. US. had demanded increase in liability to $75,000 per passenger and ...

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