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Launch vehicle · USA
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American manufacturer of rocket engines. UM, USA.
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6 events
1948 April 2
13:47 GMT - . Launch Site: White Sands. Launch Complex: White Sands LC33. Launch Vehicle: V-2.- UM-1 Aeronomy / ionosphere / solar ultraviolet mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: UM, US Army. Apogee: 144 km (89 mi). Launched 06:40 local time. Reached 144.4 km. Carried Density, pressure, temperature, composition, cosmic and solar radiation (Naval Research Lab) experiments for Signal Corps Engineering Lab, University of Michigan..
1948 September 3
01:00 GMT - . Launch Site: White Sands. Launch Complex: White Sands LC33. Launch Vehicle: V-2.- UM-2 Grenades Aeronomy mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: UM, US Army. Apogee: 151 km (93 mi). Launched 18:00 local time. Reached 151 km. Carried Density, pressure, temperature, composition experiments for Signal Corps Engineering Lab, University of Michigan..
1949 April 11
22:05 GMT - . Launch Site: White Sands. Launch Complex: White Sands LC33. Launch Vehicle: V-2.- UM-3 Aeronomy / solar x-ray / biology mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: UM, US Army. Apogee: 85 km (52 mi). Launched 15:05 local time. Reached 87.4 km. Carried Temp, composition, solar radiation (Naval Research Lab); biological experiments for Signal Corps Engineering Lab, University of Michigan..
1949 November 18
16:03 GMT - . Launch Site: White Sands. Launch Complex: White Sands LC33. Launch Vehicle: V-2.- UM Sampling,Grenades Aeronomy / Chemical release mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: UM, US Army. Apogee: 124 km (77 mi). Launched 08:03 local time. Reached 124.2 km. Carried winds, composition, temperature; cosmic radiation (APL, John Hopkins); and solar radiation (Naval Research Lab) experiments for Signal Corps Engineering Lab, University of Michigan..