MR-20

MR-20 is a Russian sounding rocket . The MR-20 can bring a payload of 130 kilograms to an altitude of 250 kilometers. The MR-20 is 9 meters long and 45 centimeters in diameter.

Experiments carried out

In 1985, an MR-20 equipped with an ion cannon was used to inject lithium ions into the ionosphere as part of a Soviet-Polish experiment.

In 1988 three MR-20 rockets were launched from the research vessel "Professor Vize" with the aim of studying the upper atmosphere and the ionospheric characteristics of auroras. The flights of MR-20 missiles were intended to study the upper atmosphere and the ionospheric properties of the northern lights.

Web links

MR-12/20/25/30 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

Individual evidence

↑ MR-20. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
↑ Brian Harvey, Olga Zakutnyaya: Russian Space Probes: Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions . Springer Science & Business Media, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-8150-9 ( google.com [accessed March 26, 2020]).
↑ COSPAR Plenary Meeting, Roy Banks Torbert, COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission D: Active experiments in space: proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission D (Meeting D3) of the COSPAR Twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 25 June-6 July 1990 . Published for the Committee on Space Research by Pergamon Press, July 31, 1992 ( google.com [accessed March 26, 2020]).
^ COSPAR Plenary Meeting: Active Experiments in Space: Proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission D (Meeting D3) of the COSPAR Twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting Held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 25 June-6 July 1990 . Committee on Space Research, 1992 ( google.ch [accessed June 12, 2020]).

[1] MR-20. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .

[2] Brian Harvey, Olga Zakutnyaya: Russian Space Probes: Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions . Springer Science & Business Media, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-8150-9 ( google.com [accessed March 26, 2020]).

[3] COSPAR Plenary Meeting, Roy Banks Torbert, COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission D: Active experiments in space: proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission D (Meeting D3) of the COSPAR Twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 25 June-6 July 1990 . Published for the Committee on Space Research by Pergamon Press, July 31, 1992 ( google.com [accessed March 26, 2020]).

[4] COSPAR Plenary Meeting: Active Experiments in Space: Proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission D (Meeting D3) of the COSPAR Twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting Held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 25 June-6 July 1990 . Committee on Space Research, 1992 ( google.ch [accessed June 12, 2020]).