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... , W Post, 1/14/70, C6)'' January 13-14: NASA successfully launched one Nike-Cajun and six Nike-Apache sounding rockets carrying chemical cloud experiments from Wallops Station between 5:36 pm ... 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 were ...

... Media: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 ... Flight 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 ...

... /6/70, 1323)'' March 6-8: NASA launched 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 ... experiments-solar flare spectrum on an Aerobee 170 , airglow experiment on a Nike-Tomahawk , and Pitot probe on a Nike-Apache -were partial successes. Of three supporting Aerobee 150 sounding rocket launches ...

... of South America. A total of 77 sounding rockets were fired, 45 of them Nike-Cajun and Nike-Apache s, and 32 of them single-stage meteorological rockets, Firings occurred at various ... Quiet Sun IQSY phenomena. ''(Wallops Release 65-22)'' Two NASA sounding rockets, a Nike-Cajun and a Nike-Apache , were launched at Wallops Station after dark and about one hour apart, Both ... used to measure atmospheric winds, shears, turbulence, and vertical motions. Nike-Cajun reached altitude of 128 km. ''(79.5 mi,) and the Nike-Apache , 145 km. ''(90.1 mi,) (NASA Rpt. SRL ...

... early as May 17 on lunar landing mission. ''(Transcript)'' NASA successfully launched two Nike-Cajun , one Arcas , and three Nike-Apache sounding rockets from Wallops Station , carrying experiments to measure meteorological, ionospheric ... absorption, Faraday rotation, and probe current to determine electron density, collision frequency, and temperature. Second Nike-Apache carried Univ. of Colorado payload to 71.5-mi (115-km) altitude to obtain ...

... Nimbus 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 ... rocket 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 ...

... for 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 ... . Brockway McMillan in ceremonies at Carswell AFB , Tex. ''(see May 22)''. ''(DOD Release 1119-63)'' Nike-Zeus antimissile missile fired at White Sands Missile Range in series testing components for ...

... ., 1/28/64; 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 ... , acquisition of data and data analysis; and supporting ground magnetometer and meteorological observations. NASA provides Nike-Apache rockets, loans the launcher, telemetry equipment, and supplementary magnetometers. Indian launch and telemetry personnel ...

... profile was launched from NASA Wallops Station to 121-mi (193-km) altitude. Minutes later, Nike-Cajun grenade experiment was launched over the Atlantic for atmosphere temperature support data at 50 ... FLIGHT CENTER GSFC . Rockets and equipment functioned satisfactorily. ''(Wallops Release 67-4)'' In related experiments, Nike-Apache sounding rocket was launched from Ft. Churchill, Canada, to obtain wind profiles by release ...

... -60)'' NASA successfully launched three artificial cloud experiments from NASA Wallops Station . In first experiment Nike-Tomahawk sounding rocket ejected multicolored barium vapor clouds over eastern US. at altitudes of 142 ... . Rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. ''(NASA Rpt SRL; Tech Wk, 4/10/67,15)'' NASA Nike-Tomahawk sounding rocket launched from NASA Wallops Station carried instrumented payload to 149.5-mi ...

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