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Kangaroo

Launch vehicle · USA

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American sounding rocket.

In the late 1960s, the Space General Division of Aerojet General Corp. designed the Kangaroo rocket. This was a meteorological sounding rocket of the "boosted dart" type, where the dart was nested inside the propellant bore of the booster rocket.

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