Apache
Launch vehicle · USA
Original archive entry. The text, images and links below are kept as they were written.
Credit: via Andreas Parsch
American sounding rocket. The Apache upper stage was an improved version of the Cajun. The Thiokol engine used aluminized polyurethane propellant with a higher specific impulse and phenolic lining in the steel nozzle. Cost to NASA was $ 6,000 per rocket. The Apache could be used in a single stage version, but was normally used with a booster stage, usually the Nike.
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- USA
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- White Sands
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- TE-307
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- Sandia
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Chronology
11 events
1960 June 1
Launch Site: White Sands. LV Family: Deacon. Launch Vehicle: Apache.- Test launch - . Nation: USA. Agency: New Mexico. Apogee: 60 km (37 mi).
1960 Oct
Launch Site: White Sands. LV Family: Deacon. Launch Vehicle: Apache.- HIGHBALL IA test - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 60 km (37 mi).
1960 Oct
Launch Site: White Sands. LV Family: Deacon. Launch Vehicle: Apache.- HIGHBALL IB test - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 60 km (37 mi).
1960 Oct
Launch Site: White Sands. LV Family: Deacon. Launch Vehicle: Apache.- HIGHBALL IC test - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 60 km (37 mi).
1961 Feb
Launch Site: White Sands. LV Family: Deacon. Launch Vehicle: Apache.- HIGHBALL III test - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 60 km (37 mi).