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Launch vehicle · Australia
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Australian sounding rocket. Two stage vehicle consisting of 1 x Gosling IV + 1 x Vela
Four Gosling motors with canted nozzles were used as boosters for the British Thunderbird ramjet surface-to-air missile. 664 Gosling IV motors were supplied for the Thunderbird, Bloodhound, and Seaslug Mark II missiles.
For sounding rocket applications, motors were supplied with in-line nozzles. The Gosling IV had an a all up mass of 256 kg, was 3.00 m long, and 0.254 m in diameter. It produced an average thrust of 124 kN over its 3.15 second burn time.
Related
- Country
- Australia
- Launch Sites
- Woomera, Woomera LA2, Woomera LA1
- Stages
- Gosling, Vela engine
- Agency
- WRE
- Bibliography
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