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Orion (rocket)

Index Orion (rocket)

Orion is the designation of a small American sounding rocket. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Aerojet, Air & Space/Smithsonian, Andøya Space, Barreira do Inferno Launch Center, Dual-thrust rocket motor, Esrange, Goddard Space Flight Center, MGR-1 Honest John, Nike (rocket stage), Poker Flat Research Range, RIM-2 Terrier, Sounding rocket, VS-30, Wallops Flight Facility, White Sands Missile Range.

Aerojet

Aerojet was an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California, with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange and Gainesville in Virginia, and Camden, Arkansas.

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Air & Space/Smithsonian

Air & Space/Smithsonian is a quarterly magazine published by the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Andøya Space

Andøya Space, also named Andøya Space Center and formerly Andøya Rocket Range, is a rocket launch site, rocket range, and spaceport on Andøya island (the northernmost in the Vesterålen archipelago) in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Barreira do Inferno Launch Center

The Barreira do Inferno Launch Center (Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno; CLBI) is a rocket launch base of the Brazilian Space Agency.

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Dual-thrust rocket motor

In a dual-thrust solid propellant rocket engine, the propellant mass is composed of two different types (densities) of fuel.

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Esrange

Esrange Space Center is a rocket range and research centre located about 40 kilometers east of the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden.

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Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

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MGR-1 Honest John

The MGR-1 Honest John rocket was the first nuclear-capable surface-to-surface rocket in the United States arsenal.

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Nike (rocket stage)

The Nike stage or Nike booster, a solid fuel rocket motor, was created by Hercules Aerospace for the Nike Ajax (M5) Nike Hercules (M5E1) (and M88 late in Hercules career).

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Poker Flat Research Range

The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR) is a launch facility and rocket range for sounding rockets in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on a site at Chatanika, about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Fairbanks and 1.5 degrees south of the Arctic Circle.

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RIM-2 Terrier

The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), among the earliest SAMs to equip United States Navy ships.

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Sounding rocket

A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight.

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VS-30

The VS-30 is a Brazilian sounding rocket, developed by the Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço and derived from the Sonda 3 sounding rocket first stage. Orion (rocket) and VS-30 are Rocketry stubs.

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Wallops Flight Facility

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately north-northeast of Norfolk.

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White Sands Missile Range

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(rocket)

Also known as Improved Orion, Orion (U.S. rocket), Orion (US rocket), Orion (US-rocket).