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The Mesquito sounding rocket
Function Sounding rocket Manufacturer NSROC Country of origin United States Status Retired Launch sites LC-2, Wallops Island Total launches 3 Success(es ) 2 Failure(s ) 1 First flight 6 May 2008
The Mesquito is an American sounding rocket vehicle developed for the NASA Sounding Rocket Program on Wallops Island , Virginia . The Mesquito was developed to provide rocket-borne measurements of the mesospheric region of the upper atmosphere.[1]
The Mesquito is a two-stage sounding rocket using a 9-inch-diameter (229 mm ) solid propellant rocket motor from surplus M26 MLRS artillery rocket as the first-stage. The non-propulsive second-stage dart contains a free-flying structural body that includes an avionics suite and an experiment space with interface.[2]
The maiden flight occurred on 6 May, 2008, from LC-2 at the Wallops Flight Facility . After three test launches, the project was shelved.[2]
Launch history [ edit ]
Date
Time (GMT)
S/N
Mission
Apogee
Outcome
Remarks
2008-05-06
18:08
12.065
Test
85 km
Success
Maiden flight[3]
2008-05-07
19:18
12.066
Test
15 km
Failure
Loss of control following burnout[3]
2009-12-16
13:46
12.068
Test
90 km
Success
Dart pinned to first stage[2] [4]
References [ edit ]
^ "Mesquito" . www.astronautix.com . Retrieved 2023-03-07 .
^ a b c Krebs, Gunter Dirk. "Mesquito" . Gunter's Space Page . Retrieved 2024-06-16 .
^ a b Flowers, Betty; Powell, Rebecca (2008-05-12). "Mesquito Launches" (PDF) . Inside Wallops . Vol. XX-08, no. 17. NASA Wallops Flight Facility. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-16. Retrieved 2008-05-15 .
^ "12.068 - Mesquito test flight" (PDF) . Rocket Report . Fourth Quarter 2009. p. 1.
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