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... ) launched from icebreaker East-wind off Greenland by ONR group under James A. Van Allen . Rockoon low-cost technique was the idea of Alvin Edward Moore who proposed using balloons for ... 1949. In 1951 Kurt Stehling wrote to James van Allen encouraging him to attempt a Rockoon firing. Later Stehling and Van Allen began a series of tests with the University of ...
... the Gulf of Mexico to launch its rocket, a launch concept known as a rockoon. According to the rockoon concept, a small rocket may "obtain very high altitude because there is little ... slow it down during launch." James A. Van Allen had been the first to fly rockoons in the 1950s, as part of a joint U.S. Navy-University of Iowa project ...
... least the 1930s and would become known as a "''rockoon''." x Stehling and Van Allen soon began a series of tests with rockoons with the University of Iowa. xi
Image:100YearsCanadianSlide12.JPG right thumb Newspaper articles about Rockoons and Kurt Stehling
At the Second International Astronautical ...
... fortés in space science and astronautics.
In July 1955 James Van Allen and Stehling's rockoons would be covered in ''Time'' magazine. Five months later Stehling was recruited by the US ... 1956 the US government, in conjunction with the Canadian Defense Research Board (CDRB) announced that rockoons would be fired from ships in Frobisher Bay, and from Fort Churchill Manitoba and Baffin ...
... work done at Langley Laboratory, 1952-56.
State University of Iowa completed balloon-launched rocket (Rockoon) research at high latitudes begun in 1952. James A. Van Allen reported that principal scientific ...
... widespread use of plastic balloons as research tools in Skyhook , James A. Van Allen ’s Rockoons (balloon-launched sounding rockets), Strato-Lab, and Man-High balloon research projects. ''(AP, Wash. Post ...
... a seagoing test platform for various missile systems, particularly for numerous sound-ing rocket and " Rockoon " launches. ''(DOD Release 468-64)''
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Concept of launching of small high-performance rockets suspended from a balloon above most of the atmosphere (later called "Rockoons"), developed by Cmdr. Lee Lewis, Cmdr. G. Halvorson, S. F. Singer, and James A. Van Allen during Aerobee firing cruise of U.S.S. Norton Sound.
“Operation Eclipse: 1948” article appears in National Geographic Magazine
Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL fired first of a series of 8,544 Loki solid-propellant antiaircraft missiles at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG , the Army program ending after September 1955. Loki rocket was later used in ONR Rockoon , upper atmosphere balloon-launched rocket research soundings.
August-September: Series of Rockoon launchings from Eastwind in high-altitude research by ONR group.
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