Nike-ASP
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Nike Asp was an American sounding rocket. The Nike Asp has a ceiling of 220 km, a takeoff thrust of 217 kN, a takeoff weight of 700 kg, a diameter of 0.42 m and a length of 7.90 m.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sounding rocket
- Has part
- ASP
- Country of origin
- United States
- Diameter
- 0.17
- Mass
- 700
- Image
- Nike-asp.jpg
- Length
- 7.9
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- service retirement
- 1963-02-18
- payload mass
- 27
- service entry
- 1957-09-26
- maximum thrust
- 42
- Commons category
- Nike Asp
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Nike Asp was an American sounding rocket. The Nike Asp has a ceiling of 220 km, a takeoff thrust of 217 kN, a takeoff weight of 700 kg, a diameter of 0.42 m and a length of 7.90 m.
The Nike-Asp is an Asp rocket (Asp IV RM-1400) with a Nike booster system. It was at times ship-launched. After NASA took control of the project, the rocket fell into disuse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nike-ASP” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.