Questions tagged [sounding-rocket]
A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight.
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Most likely trajectory of the Gravity Probe A spacecraft, and location of the microwave maser receiver on Earth?
Background/motivation @PM2Ring's comment under an answer to "Is there a wavelength shift between sunlight observed from the ISS versus from Earth's surface?" in Physics SE links to the ...
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Chamber Pressure and Burn Rate equations
I know that chamber pressure is $$P_0=p \left[ 1+ \frac{1}{2}(k-1)M^2 \right]^\frac{k}{k-1}$$ where $M$ is exit Mach number and according this equation $$M= \sqrt{ \frac{2}{k-1} \left[ \left( \frac{...
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Why does this sounding rocket have black sooty exhaust with mach-diamond-like oscillations? Is this unusual?
File footage of a sounding rocket with a dark, non-luminescent, sooty exhaust with mach-diamond-like oscillations is shown in the video 1957-1959 IBM 704 Computer - Vanguard Satellite Program "...
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Is the SS-520-5 both a floor wax and a desert topping? Can it be considered both a sounding rocket and an orbital vehicle?
The answer to If there "won't be" rockets to launch individual cubesats, then why did JAXA build exactly that? (SS-520-xx) begins The SS-520-5 launcher is not intended to be an ...
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Largest number of rockets launched into space from a given launch site in a 24 hour period?
Question: What is the largest number of rockets launched into space from a given launch site in a 24 hour period? Where, when, why? "into space" means $\ge$ 100 km, but pretty close to 100 ...
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Do sounding rockets need a license to be launched?
I am just curious to know if any kind of license is needed to launch a sounding rocket? If yes, then what kind of licenses are there for sounding rocket launches.
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What is an "Aceteria improved Ryan suborbital sounding rocket"?
Why does the Minotaur I wear a yellow jacket that "banana-peels" off as it launches? links to the NASA Wallops video NRO L-111 Launch (already cued at the statement in question). At the end ...
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KiNET-X Launch, where will the 'vapour cloud' be?
Inspired by How to calculate degrees above/below horizon? (For KiNET-X rocket getting to an altitude of over 200 miles.) and this NASA article/blog post, specifically this paragraph: The vapor will ...
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MT-135 Sounding Rocket info / design
I'm searching for any design file or deep-info on the MT-135 rocket, the fuel used, engines, engines info, any thing really. I have deep-searched on tons of sites but I just find few missions that ...
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Smallest sounding rocket to reach space by height?
Which is the smallest sounding rocket to reach space (100 km)? By height Similar question: Smallest orbital rockets by height?
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Did any rockets have 5- or 7-fold symmetry?
Have any rockets ever been made with fivefold or sevenfold symmetry? Five or seven (or larger prime numbers, or multiples thereof) identical engines or boosters equally spaced around the center. (...
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Could the SS520 be used to return a payload from Mars to Earth?
The Japanese SS520-5 nanosat launcher has a payload of 5kg or so to LEO on an all solid fuel rocket with a total mass of about 2.6 tons. To reach LEO its delta-V totalled over all three stages must be ...
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Did any sounding rocket ever fly through a noctilucent cloud?
Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds forming above the Earth, up in the mesosphere. They form in late spring / early summer and above latitudes closer to the poles. Was a sounding rocket ever ...
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Highest reaching sounding rocket
What is the highest reaching sounding rocket? Black Brant XII can reack 1,500 km, is there any other sounding rocket that can reach even higher?
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Which sounding rockets are the biggest?
Saturn 5 is the tallest heaviest and most powerful rocket but what are the biggest sounding rockets by height, mass and power? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_rocket RTV-G-4 Bumper - 19 m - ...
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