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... 5 (launched Dec. 10, 1972) and Noaa 2 (launched Oct. 15, 1972) satellites. Four Nike-Cajun sounding rockets were launched carrying Goddard Space Flight Center acoustic grenades to measure temperature and ... performance was satisfactory and all 12 grenades were detonated successfully. In addition to the Nike-Cajun s, the launches included 4 balloon sondes, 3 Viper Darts, and 15 Super Lokis instrumented ...

... /28/64; Finney, NYT, 1/29/64, 12) '' NASA conducted three grenade experiments with Nike-Cajun sounding rockets launched from Wallops Island, Va .; Fort Churchill , Canada; and Ascension Island in the ... . At Wallops Island, Nike-Cajun lifted off at 11:11 p.m. EST, followed by Nike-Cajun at Fort Churchill at 11:17 p.m. EST, and Nike-Cajun at Ascension Island, 11 ...

... studies of the atmosphere from Wallops Island, Va .: Ft. Churchill , Canada; and Kronogard , Sweden. Nike-Cajun launched from Ft. Churchill reached 77.5-mi. altitude with 12 grenades ejecting and detonating ... was cooperative effort of USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories and Meteorological Institute of Stockholm Univ. Nike-Cajun launched from Kronogard, with grenade payload functioned properly, but no usable data were obtained because ...

... point from sun. ''(Transcript)'' NASA launched four sounding rockets from Churchill Research Range . Two Nike-Cajun s carried Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC grenade experiments. Nike-Apache carried Univ. of Michigan ... experiment that created reddish-orange cloud visible for hundreds of miles along East Coast. Nike-Cajun and four Nike-Apache s carried trimethylaluminum (TMA) payloads that formed pale white clouds. Data ...

... :63-02-20.pdf Space News for this day. (2MB PDF) Nike-Apache and Nike-Cajun sounding rockets were launched from NASA Wallops Station with scientific experiments designed to measure atmospheric ... Center to study characteristics and composition of the upper atmosphere. ''(Wallops Release 63-17)'' Nike-Cajun sounding rocket with experiments to meas­ure winds and temperatures and to derive densities and ...

... , a related experiment was launched from Wallops Island using Nike-Cajun sounding rocket. Three mylar balloons were ejected from Nike-Cajun and tracked by radar, to provide air density data to aid ... provide instrumentation for test. ''(DOD Release 1088-63)'' Sweden successfully launched U.S. Army Nike-Cajun rocket from Kronogard rocket range in test to explore "bright night clouds." ''(M&R, 8 ...

... Space Research, program included launchings of Areas rockets with payloads to measure winds and Nike-Cajun rockets with payloads to make direct cloud samplings during 1961 and 1962. Four Nike-Cajun rockets with rocket grenade payloads were successfully launched during summer 1963, these experiments measuring upper ...

... more advanced space missions of the future. . . ." ''(Testimony; CR, 2/5/64, A548-50)'' Nike-Cajun sounding rockets with grenade experiments were launched at Wallops Island, Va ., and Ft. Churchill, Canada ... from Wallops reached 73.8-mi. altitude, with all 12 of its grenades exploding; Nike-Cajun from Ft. Churchill reached 78-mi. altitude, with 11 grenades functioning normally and the twelfth ...

... to investigate winds, temperature, density, and pressure in the upper atmosphere. The first, a Nike-Cajun was launched from Wallops; it sent payload to about 57-mi. altitude, where aluminum-coated ... were an extension of series conducted from Jan. 23 to Mar. 6 involving 13 Nike-Cajun flights which "yielded excellent data on the characteristics in the upper atmosphere during winter conditions ...

... Laboratories and Stockholm Univ.'s Meteorological Institute cooperated in the experiment. Twenty minutes later, Nike-Cajun was launched with grenade payload to 80-mi. altitude, providing good data on atmospheric temperature ... cooperated with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in this experiment ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' NASA Nike-Cajun sounding rockets launched within 10 min. of each other to provide data on evening atmospheric ...

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