Aerobee Hi Missile, White Sands Missile Range Museum The Aerobee rocket was one of the United States' most produced and productive sounding rockets.Developed by the Aerojet Corporation, the Aerobee was designed to combine the altitude and launching capability of the V-2 with the cost effectiveness and mass production of the WAC Corporal.More than 1000 Aerobees were launched between 1947 and ...

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Aug 15, 2016 · Aerobee Hi American sounding rocket. Aerobee Hi was a development of the basic Aerobee with longer propellant tanks, improved materials, a better propellant fraction, and smaller fins. 9.3 m l x 0.39 m dia. The booster stage fired for 2.5 seconds and took the rocket to 270 m altitude and 820 kph.

In total, more than 800 examples of the first Aerobee versions (basic Aerobee, Aerobee-Hi and Aerobee 150/150A) were built and flown by the U.S. military services and NASA between 1947 and 1985 (when the last Aerobee 150 was launched by NASA). It was the first American general purpose high-altitude sounding rocket. It's most serious drawback was the liquid-fueled sustainer engine, and the need ...

The Aerobee rocket family was one of the outstanding achievements of early American rocketry. It not only was a primary sounding rocket of the 1940s and 1950s; Aerobees were launched into the mid-1980s with the last flight in 1985. The early RTV-N-10 Aerobee was a 6.14m (8.06m with booster) unguided sounding rocket used for high atmospheric and cosmic radiation research in the United States in ...

Aerojet Aerobee Rocket. The Aerobee was designed to carry instruments aloft to collect data on the upper atmosphere and to place small animals in a weightless condition for physiological studies. It was launched by a solid-propellant booster engine of 18,000 pounds thrust that burned for only two and a half seconds. After the booster burned out ...

Sep 20, 2016 · Using lessons learned from Aerobee-19, teams quickly recovered the capsule and removed the monkeys and mice – making Aerobee-26 the first U.S. rocket flight to successfully recover all living ...

The Aerojet General X-8 was an unguided, spin-stabilized sounding rocket designed to launch a 150 lb (68 kg) payload to 200,000 feet (61.0 km). [2] [3] The X-8 was a version of the prolific Aerobee rocket family.[3] [4] [5]Towards the end of World War II, the US Army and the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had developed a meteorological sounding rocket, the WAC ...

Jul 24, 2024 · The Aerobee 150 was a two-stage research rocket with a solid-fuel booster and a liquid-fuel sustainer. 1,037 Aerobee variants flew from November 24, 1947 to January 17, 1985. Many of these were launched from White Sands Missile Range. These rockets carried instruments to explore the upper atmosphere, as well as scientific and biological payloads.

Aug 6, 2016 · The Aerobee-Hi's were born when the Navy and Air Force were approached by Aerojet in 1952 on the subject of an improved Aerobee - a rocket capable of lifting 68 kg (150 lb) to about 240 km (150 ml). Aerojet received an Air Force contract in 1952 and another from the Navy in 1953. The fundamental difference between the Aerobee-Hi and the ...