Rockair
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Rockair was a United States
sounding rocket
designed for launch from an airplane, which was tested 1955. The Rockair had a maximum height of 50 km (160,000 ft), a takeoff thrust of 3.00 kN (675 lbf), a diameter of 70 mm (2¾ in) and a length of 1.20 m (47 in).
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sounding rocket
Sounding rocket
A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The origin of the term comes from nautical vocabulary, where to sound is to throw a weighted line from a ship into...
designed for launch from an airplane, which was tested 1955. The Rockair had a maximum height of 50 km (160,000 ft), a takeoff thrust of 3.00 kN (675 lbf), a diameter of 70 mm (2¾ in) and a length of 1.20 m (47 in).