GIRD-09
| Basic data | |
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| country |
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| Chief designer | M. K. Tikhonrawov |
| Development time | 1932-1933 |
| First flight | August 17, 1933 |
| length | 2405 mm |
| diameter | 180 mm |
| Span stabilization surfaces | 630 mm |
| Empty weight | 7.82 kg |
| Fuel weight | 4.93 kg |
| Usable weight | 6.20 kg |
| Takeoff weight | 18.95 kg |
| Mass ratio | 1.35 |
| drive | " Type 09 " liquid |
| fuel | gelled gasoline, liquid oxygen |
| Maximum thrust | 497 N. |
| specific impulse | 1608 Ns / kg |
| Burn time | 18 s |
| speed | 275 m / s |
| Summit height | 430 m |
The GIRD-09 (also: R1 , Russian ГИРД-09 ) was the first Soviet hybrid missile . It first flew on August 17, 1933.
development
It was developed in development department 2 of the GIRD under the direction of Mikhail Tichonrawow from 1932. a. also Sergei Korolev . The ground test runs began in March 1933. Difficulties with the unstable hybrid engine delayed the testing by almost five months. The first launch took place on August 17th in Nachabino near Moscow at 7:00 p.m. It lasted 18 seconds and the rocket reached a height of 400 meters. This start is considered to be the hour of birth of Soviet rocket construction.
A second start in autumn 1933 failed because the engine exploded. As a more powerful further development, the model 13 was created , of which six copies were built.
literature
- Peter Stache: The GIRD's first Soviet liquid rocket . In: Wolfgang Sellenthin (Ed.): Fliegerkalender der DDR 1985 . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1984, p. 75-87 .
Web links
- GIRD-09 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Model of the Gird-09 rocket