Asp (rocket)

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Asp

Asp is the name for an American sounding rocket . The Asp rocket was also launched 30 times between 1955 and 1962 to investigate clouds of explosion from atomic bombs . The Asp has a payload capacity of 11 kg, a peak height of 110 km, a starting thrust of 42.00 kN, a mass of 111 kg, a diameter of 0.17 m, a length of 3.68 m and a fin span of 0, 51 m.

After 1962 , the Asp rocket was used in conjunction with other sounding rockets: with a Nike first stage as the Nike Asp or with additional upper stages as ASCAMP or Asp Apache . In addition, a small number of Asp rockets with two or four Loki were tested as boosters under the name Boosted Asp .

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