Advanced Rocketry Group of Switzerland

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Rocket launch in Val de Ruz , 2010
Rocket launch in Val de Ruz, 2013

The Advanced Rocketry Group of Switzerland (ARGOS) is a Swiss association founded in 1996 for model and high-power rockets .

ARGOS is affiliated with the US Tripoli Rocketry Association and organizes missile flight days in two parts of the country . The one flight day with international participation takes place annually.

A 4.5-meter-long and 85-kilogram airworthy model of the Ariane 4 , which was built by an ARGOS working group on a scale of 1:13, was successfully launched in 2002 in Amarillo , Texas and twice in the Val de Ruz near Neuchâtel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick di Leonardo: Les fusées modèles réduits ont percé les cieux du Val-de-Ruz L'Express et Feuille d'avis de Neuchâtel, 23 September 2008.
  2. ↑ Tom Engelhardt: Chronicle of the ALRS. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Model flying Switzerland, 2005.
  3. ^ Report in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on September 25, 2006.
  4. ↑ Report in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (PDF; 270 kB) September 29, 2007.
  5. ↑ Working group Ariane 4 of the Advanced Rocketry Group of Switzerland
  6. ^ Hans Käser: Model building exhibition in Wiedlisbach: The Ariane 4 in the Froburg. (PDF; 300 kB) Berner Zeitung, March 15, 2004.