WASP
Launch vehicle · USA
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Credit: via Andreas Parsch
American sounding rocket. Wasp research and development chaff and parachute rockets were used to obtain wind soundings to 260,000 m, fired by Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility at WSPG.
3 stage vehicle consisting of 2 x Recruit + 1 x Pollux + 1 x Antares
More at: WASP.
Related
- Country
- USA
- Launch Sites
- Wallops Island
- Stages
- Pollux, Antares 1A, 1.5KS35000
- Agency
- NASA
Chronology
2 events
1956 December 11
LV Family: Sergeant. Launch Vehicle: Wasp.- Wasp soundings to 160,000 feet. - . Nation: USA. Twenty-four Wasp research and develoment chaff and parachute rockets, used to obtain wind soundings to 160,000 feet, were fired by Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility at WSPG..