Sounding rocket

PVC plastisol proplnts are employed in sounding rockets, jets, aircraft, control motors, tactical weapons and ship models. However, they are not case-bondable (Ref 10)... 

High-altitude sounding rocket (Height up to 160 km) 1000-2000 Skylark Single-stage vehicle. 

IRFNA (b)/JP-4 (a). Aerobee 100 sustainer 2600 (total) . Sounding rocket... 

Tozer, W. F., and D. E. Beeson, 1974. Optical model of noctilucent cloud based on polarimetric measurements from two sounding rocket campaigns, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 5607-5612. 

IRFN A/aniline-furfuryl alcohol Aerobee 150 and 150A sustainer 4100 (total) Sounding rocket... 

ISRO polyol is considered to be a substitute for HTPB binder and propellants based on it are used in sounding rockets (RH-300). Such propellants are also considered as candidate propellants [94] for the booster stages of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The easy availability of castor oil coupled with its low cost makes ISRO polyol more attractive compared with current binders [95] like PBAN, CTPB and HTPB. 

Figure 13. A photograph of the RBFWI integrated into the payload of an atmospheric sounding rocket.

First supersonic (faster than speed of sound) rocket-powered airplane was flown in the US by Charles Yeager... 

Rocket nose cones (2) Sounding rocket tubes... 

In thermally non-homogeneous supercritical fluids, very intense convective motion can occur [Ij. Moreovei thermal transport measurements report a very fast heat transport although the heat diffusivity is extremely small. In 1985, experiments were performed in a sounding rocket in which the bulk temperature followed the wall temperature with a very short time delay [11]. This implies that instead of a critical slowing down of heat transport, an adiabatic critical speeding up was observed, although this was not interpreted as such at that time. In 1990 the thermo-compressive nature of this phenomenon was explained in a pure thermodynamic approach in which the phenomenon has been called adiabatic effect [12]. Based on a semi-hydrodynamic method [13] and numerically solved Navier-Stokes equations for a Van der Waals fluid [14], the speeding effect is called the piston effecf. The piston effect can be observed in the very close vicinity of the critical point and has some remarkable properties [1, 15] ... 

Pojman, J. A. Khan, A. M. Mathias, L. J. 1997a. Frontal Polymerization in Microgravity Results from the Conquest I Sounding Rocket Flight, Microg. Set. 

Since 1970 the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory has conducted a infrared survey program in order to obtain the spatial and brightness distribution of a representative sample of the types of celestial objects which emit strongly in the 3 to 30 pm spectral region. The survey data, presented herein, were obtained with small cryogenically cooled telescopes flown above the atmosphere by sounding rockets. 

McGinniss and Whitmore studied thin polysulfone membranes formed under high and low g environments on parabolic airplane flights, sounding rockets and on the Space Shuttle (42). The most important effect of acceleration level was on the solvent gas transfer coefficient and not on the components in the membrane. Tan et al. considered the same issue theoretically (43). 

Naumann reviewed the results from the Consort sounding rocket program that included several polymer experiments but to the best of the authors knowledge none of experiments have been published in the peer-reviewed literature 51),... 

Foams are quite susceptible to influences from the buoyancy. Polymeric foam formation has been studied on sounding rockets (58,59) and parabolic airplane flights (60,61). Volatilization of thermoplastics is also affected, which affects how thermoplastics can bum (62). 

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