Meteor sounding rocket
Organisation · Poland
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Meteor satellite. Meteor-M and Meteor-Priroda were similar.
Family of Polish sounding rockets developed by the Polish Aviation Institute for the Polish Hydro-Meteorological institute beginning in 1962.
Subtopics
- Meteor-1 Polish sounding rocket. Single stage vehicle.
- Meteor-2H Polish sounding rocket. Larger version of Meteor, capable of taking twice the payload to twice the altitude. Single stage vehicle.
- Meteor-3 sounding rocket Polish sounding rocket. Development of the Meteor-3 began in 1967. The two stage vehicle consisted of two modified Meteor-1 stages in tandem. It was launched from a 12-m rail launcher and could take the 4.5 kg dart payload to 65 km.
- Meteor-2K The most powerful Polish rocket ever flown. 2 stage vehicle consisting of 2 x Meteor 1 + 1 x Meteor-2.