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... array. The second Nike-Cajun launched 79 minutes later reached an altitude of 116.2 km (72.2 mi) and detonated all of its 12 grenades successfully. The third Nike-Cajun was launched July 18 to a 114.9-km (71.4-mi) altitude. Rocket performance was satisfactory and all 31 grenades were successfully detonated. The final Nike-Cajun was launched ...

... from Churchill Research Range . Two Nike-Cajun s carried Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC grenade experiments. Nike-Apache carried Univ. of Michigan experiment to study atmospheric structure. Nike-Tomahawk carried Univ. of Maryland payload ... stage failed to ignite. Nike-Apache launched at dawn carried sodium experiment that created reddish-orange cloud visible for hundreds of miles along East Coast. Nike-Cajun and four Nike-Apache s carried trimethylaluminum ...

... ., 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 the ... separated locations. 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, 11:18 ...

... . (2MB PDF) Nike-Apache and Nike-Cajun sounding rockets were launched from NASA Wallops Station with scientific experiments designed to measure atmospheric temperatures, winds and diffu­sion rates at high altitudes. Nike-Apache's payload ejected so­dium vapor trail from 25-mi. altitude to 100-mi. altitude, the vapor clouds visible for several hundred miles. Nike-Cajun's payload consisted ...

... , and pressure data. Nike-Cajun launched from Wallops Island ejected 12 grenades during its ascent to 72-mi. altitude, with similar ground-based microphone array to obtain data. Nike-Apache launched from Kronogard ... Meteorological Institute of Stockholm Univ. Nike-Cajun launched from Kronogard, with grenade payload functioned properly, but no usable data were obtained because of loss of Dovap near Cajun ignition. For same reason, peak ...

... 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 position ... the 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 ...

With launching of Nike-Cajun sounding rocket from Kronogard Range , Sweden and U.S. completed series of sounding rocket experiments ... 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 ...

... payloads consisted of four Nike-Apache pitot density probes, two Nike-Cajun grenade payloads, one Nike-Cajun pitot atomic oxygen, and one Nike- Cajun ozone experiment. All launches were successful except one; first Nike-Apache failed when rocket ...

... Research 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 ... Institute 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 ...

... launched two Nike-Cajun sounding rockets, one from Wallops Island, Va., and one from Ft. Churchill, Canada, for purpose of comparing data on wind and temperatures in upper atmosphere. Nike-Cajun from Ft. Churchill ... schedule.; ground instrumentation measured sound energy from exploding grenades and recorded rocket position during flight. Nike-Cajun from Wallops Island performed unsatisfactorily, reaching altitude of only 31.8 mi. instead of 69 ...

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