Nike-Black Brant 5C and XM-75 two qualified sounding rockets for the user with very heavy payloads or very light payloads
Abstract
Developments of the 5 kg payload Black Brant 6/XM-75 and 500 kg payload Nike-Black Brant 5C sounding rockets are described. These two rockets represent the extremes in a family of Black Brants that encompass virtually the entire altitude/payload weight envelope of interest to the scientist who employs sounding rockets.
- Publication:
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Sounding-Rocket and Balloon Research in the Auroral Zone
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976srbr.rept..473B
- Keywords:
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- Black Brant Sounding Rockets;
- Nike Missiles;
- Payloads;
- Missile Design;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles