Sounding Rocket Data

Sounding Rockets

Peter Alway's Home Page	Sounding rockets are scientific research rockets used to study the upper atmosphere and space beyond. Here are a bunch of free drawings of assorted sounding rockets that are not in my books. A couple have appeared in Sport Rocketry magazine. These drawings were converted from my original MacDraw documents into 72 pixel-per-inch gif images. Windows machines may print them at 75 pixels per inch--4% smaller than the scales indicate. "STA" numbers refer to distance from nose tip, tail end, or some other reference point along the rocket. The symbol that looks like an O with a line through it means diameter.
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Aerobee 170	Black Brant VI	Black Brant VIII
Dauphin	Hopi-Dart	Journeyman
MT-135	RX-250-LPN	Terrier-Nike

Aerobee 170 The Aerobee 150A was a US liquid-fueled sounding rocket of the 1960's, 70's, and 80's. With a Nike booster, it became the Aerobee 170. Dimensioned and color drawing Color photo of round in drawing Color photo of another round
Black Brant VI The Black Brant VI was a small meteorological rocket created by Canada's Bristol Aerospace. These colors are based on a BB VII photo, but they should be close. Dimensioned and color drawing		Black Brant VI Black Brant VI in US Army configuration Dimensioned and color drawing Photo of painted (Red and White) version
Black Brant VIII Sometimes called the Nike-Black Brant, this rocket combines a Nike booster with a Black Brant V upper stage. Dimensioned and color drawing Enlarged markings Photo from St. Louis Science Center Lower Stage Upper Stage
Dauphin This is a French solid-fueled sounding rocket. Data originally appeared in Sport Rocketry magazine. Dimensioned and color drawing Enlarged Markings Photo		Hopi-Dart An American Boosted-dart meteorological Rocket Dimensioned and color drawing
Journeyman The US Air Force and NASA created this rocket to study radiation at high altitudes. Dimensioned source drawing Nose, Fin 1, Fin 2, Fin 3 Overall photo, 1st stage, 2nd&3rd stages		MT-135 This is a small Japanese meteorological rocket Dimensioned and color-keyed drawing Photo
RX-250-LPN This is an Indonesian sounding rocket dating to the 1980's. LAPAN is the Indonesian space agency. The fins in the drawing don't match the photo--try the dimensions of the upper stage fins from the RX-250/250 LAPAN data sheet with dimensions and color photo
Terrier-Nike This combination of missile boosters was used to test some sort of recovery system. Dimensioned and color drawing Color photo

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