Regener bin
The Regener barrel was the first scientific payload for a rocket at high altitude. It was developed under the direction of Erich Regener from 1942 to 1945 and was supposed to be brought to a height of 50 km with an A4 rocket and then to return to earth floating on a parachute. The Regener barrel was intended to collect data on the high atmosphere that was needed to improve the accuracy of the A4 missile.
The Regener barrel contained a UV spectrograph for recording solar spectra, a barograph , a thermograph , an ion meter, an air density interferometer and a galvanometer . An air sample should also be taken. However, the Regener buoy did not fly. The parachute was tested in the assembly hall of the former test stand VII in Peenemünde . A successful flight with a dummy of the Regener barrel was carried out in January 1945. The original has been considered lost since 1945.
literature
- David H. DeVorkin: Science with a vengeance: how the military created the US space sciences after world war II , Springer, New York 1992, chapters 3 and 4
Web links
- Thomas Kliebenschedel: The birth of the research method "extraterrestrial physics"
- Michael Globig: With the bin into the atmosphere (PDF file; 222 kB). In: MaxPlanckResearch 4/2006, p. 56 f.