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Sounding Rockets

Sounding rockets take their name from the nautical term "to sound," which means to take measurements. Since 1959, NASA-sponsored space and earth science research has used sounding rockets to test instruments used on satellites and spacecraft and to provide information about the Sun, stars, galaxies and Earth's atmosphere and radiation.

Sounding rockets carry experiments to altitudes between 50 and 1,500 km and fly in nearly parabolic trajectories re-entering the atmosphere downrange from the launch site. Each flight lasts around 20 - 30 minutes.

Science missions focus on geospace research, solar physics, astrophysics and atmospheric studies. Telescopes launched with sounding rockets are used for planetary, solar and astrophysics studies.

New technologies for future satellite missions are tested with sounding rockets, allowing scientists to verify functionality of instruments prior to committing to a multiyear space mission. Sounding rockets are used for carrying and releasing re-entry test vehicles. The instrumented re-entry body transmits data on dynamic pressure, orientation, velocity and other characteristics of the flight. This research helps answer questions about landing probes on other celestial bodies, such as Mars.

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1 Nike Apache
2 Nike Tomahawk
3 Terrier Lynx
4 First Skylark
5 Skylark Raven
6 Skylark Goldfinch Raven

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7 Pencil
8 Pencil 300
9 Pencil (2 stage)
10 Baby
11 Kappa 9M
12 WAC Corporal


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13 Nike Smoke
14 Dauphin (Dolphin) Sounding Rocket
15 Operational Falstaff
16 Original Falstaff
17 GIRD-9
18 GIRD-X


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19 HEROS 3
20 IRIS
21 Black Brant X
22 Black Brant XI
23 Black Brant XII
24 Talos-Terrier Oriole


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25 Sergeant-Hydac
26 Terrier Improved Orion
27 Hydra Sandhawk
28 Terrier Sandhawk
29 Terrier-Improved Malemute
30 Black Brant IX


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31 Improved-Orion
32 Terrier Improved Orion (version 2)