Rockair

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Rockair was designed and built for aircraft take-off sounding rocket , which the Office of Naval Research and the University of Maryland has been developed. The missile was tested in 1955. It had a peak height of 50 km, a starting thrust of 3.00 kN , a diameter of 0.07 m and a length of 1.20 m. With the missile type a total of five take-off attempts by a McDonnell F2H Banshee aircraft of the Navy off Wallops Island were made in 1955 , only one of them was successful. The tests were based on the Naval Aviation Ordnance Test Station (NAOTS) in Chincoteague , Virginia .

literature

  • William R. Corliss (1971): "NASA sounding rockets, 1958-1968 - A Historical Summary", NASA SP-4401

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rockair in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)