A sounding rocket is, technically, a rocket sent up for the purpose of taking measurements, or collecting data. The term 'sounding' is a US naval term for data measurement, and the term 'sounding rocket' began as a differentiator between upper atmospheric data collection missions, orbital insertion missions and human crewed missions.

The Nike-Malemute sounding rocket would be able to lift a 90-kilogram payload to 500 kilometers; the Terrier-Malemute would lift the same payload to 700 kilometers. The new vehicles were intended to replace the Javelin and Black Brant IV rockets in the NASA inventory. 2

Jan 11, 2017 · Black Brant XII, one of the most advanced sounding rockets in use, can take 100-400kg payload into space for \$600K. For a Falcon-9-based sounding rocket approach to make any sense, you'd have to describe a single payload that delivered as much science as 100 individual 100kg payloads. I'm hard-pressed to imagine such a thing.

Aug 6, 2020 · I noticed in the most recent NASA sounding rocket annual report that the Oriole IV has slightly better performance than the Black Brant XII. However, based on astronautix I don't think any mission has actually reached 1500 km.

Aug 7, 2020 · So there is little commercial incentive to design, build and sell a 10-20 tonne rocket to fly sounding profiles with 1-2 tonne payloads so none have made it to market in volume to be used for sounding rocket programs. The answer to this question may change if the 20 tonne New Shepard starts flying science payloads on a commercial basis.

Mar 11, 2017 · I believe you can specify a custom rocket and flight plan in flightclub.io The examples below give you some idea of how it works. The big image is the first launch of the Falcon Heavy, you can see the two side boosters land on the left and the center booster over the horizon on the right.

$\begingroup$ @MagicOctopusUrn You'll find that the extraction of argon is a multi-step process. Liquifying air is done with the supersonic nozzle (though that's how they did it years ago—if there's a newer, more efficient process I don't know about it), then you have to "fractionate" it i.e. separate it into its component species.

The flight profile of a sounding rocket and the New Shepard are very different. For one, sounding rockets often fly higher than NS with some reaching altitudes of up to 1500 km. Additionally, sounding rockets undergo much more extreme accelerations. If you've ever seen a launch it's pretty clear to see that the sounding rocket is ridiculously fast.

The three launch pads at the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station have facilities for a variety of sounding rockets, including the French Centaure Dragon, the Indian Centaure and Rohini, Britain's Skua and Petrel, America's Nike-Apache, Nike-Tomahawk and Arcas and Russia's M-100.

Jan 21, 2016 · A sounding rocket is a rocket that ascends into the high atmosphere in order to take all sorts of measurements so we can learn more about the upper atmosphere. They don't go into orbit, so they can be smaller than what we normally think of space rockets. However, they can still go above 100km fairly easily, and they still go very fast.