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... Range , N. Mex. The radar, the Multi-function Array Radar (MAR) was part of the Nike-X anti-ICBM missile system. Called a phased array radar, MAR worked on the theory ... computer to play the beam. The MAR was to replace three radars used in the Nike-Zeus Antimissile Missile System: acquisition radar for detecting missile warheads at long ranges; the target ...

... of funds by NASA as part of its Technology Utilization program. ''(NASA Release 64-190)'' Nike-Cajun sounding rocket with upper atmosphere grenade experiment was launched from Wallops Island to 73 ... 's Kronogard Range (81-mi. peak altitude) and with another experiment launched there on a Nike-Apache rocket to measure noctilucent clouds (77-mi. peak altitude). These launchings marked beginning of ...

NASA launched Nike-Cajun sounding rocket from Ft. Churchill with grenade payload to obtain atmospheric temperature, wind, density, ... of Pure Research announced agreement for joint scientific sounding rocket project. Under the agreement, four Nike-Apache sounding rockets carrying sodium vapor payloads would be launched from Coronie, Surinam, near the ...

... sounding rocket launches was conducted at Wallops Island, Va .; Ascension Island; and Kronogard , Sweden. A Nike-Cajun was launched from each range with exploding grenade payloads to provide temperature, wind, density ... mi. ; from Ascension, 77 mi.; and from Kronogard, 84 mi. The fourth experiment was a Nike-Apache launched to 74.3-mi. altitude with payload to collect micrometeoroid particles during a ...

... being awarded $1,409,346 contract for study and evaluation 'of Nike-X system's potential effective-ness, DOD announced. Nike-X project at Redstone Arsenal , Ala., awarded the contract. ''(DOD Release ...

... International Quiet Sun Year ''(IQSY)''. 40 or more scientific experiments would be carried by Nike-Apache and Nike-Cajun sounding rockets as well as Areas and Hasp weather rockets to areas of ...

... Javelin peak altitude. Data from this experiment would be combined with that obtained from a Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched 90 sec. earlier. ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' X-15 No. 2 piloted by John B. McKay ''(NASA)'' in planned captive flight. ''(NASA X-15 Proj. Off.)'' NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket with French sodium-vapor payload was launched from India's Thumba Range ...

NASA launched its first pair of ship-to-shore sodium vapor cloud experiments aboard Nike-Apache sounding rockets, one at 5 :25 p.m. EST from a launcher on the ... wind velocities and directions from the photographic records. ''(Wallops Release 64-83 ; NASA Rpt.'' NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket with French sodium-vapor payload was launched from India's Thumba Range ...

... of two metalized-mylar spheres, were provided by Univ. of Michigan. The first rocket, a Nike-Apache, reached 136-mi. altitude and two spheres ejected and inflated, but ship's radar ... not acquire track. Land-based radars did obtain sphere trajectory data. The second rocket, a Nike-Cajun , reached 92.6-mi. altitude, its spheres ejecting and inflating as planned but deflating ...

USAF launched Atlas-Agena D from WTR with unidentified satellite payload. ''(HHN-48)'' Nike-Cajun sounding rocket reached 85-mi. altitude in launch from Chamical, Argentina. Instrumented payload apparently ... electron density, electron temperature, ultraviolet and solar x-radiation flux. Test was second of two Nike-Cajun launches by NASA and Argentina's National Commission of Space Research. ''(NASA Rpt. SRL ...

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