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  2. Titus (rocket) - Wikipedia

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    Titus was derived from the initial two stages of the Bérénice test vehicle. [2] [4]The first stage, weighing 1935 kg, used a SEPR-739-2 Stromboli solid rocket motor with 1245 kg of Plastolane propellant with a 20-second burn time.

  3. Sounding rocket - Wikipedia

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    ONERA in France launched a sounding rocket named Titus, developed for observation of the total solar eclipse in Argentina on November 12, 1966. Titus was a two-stage rocket with a length of 11.5 m, a launch weight of 3.4 tons, and a diameter of 56 cm. It reached a maximum height of 270 kilometers.

  4. Las Palmas, Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Las Palmas (also mentioned as Lapachito and Chaco) [1] is a rocket launch site in Argentina at used on November 12, 1966, [2] for the launch of two Titus rockets [3] for observing a solar eclipse

  5. List of sounding rockets - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan's sounding rocket program used a variety of sounding rockets which were renamed in 3 series. Some flights were not given a Pakistani designation. Sounding rockets were flown from the Sonmiani Rocket Range. [247] [248] [249] Centaure (a.k.a. Rehbar, Rehnuma, Shahpar) [108] Dragon (a.k.a. Shahpar) [116] Judi-Dart (a.k.a. Rehbar, Rehnuma ...

  6. Titan (rocket family) - Wikipedia

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    Most of the Titan rockets were the Titan II ICBM and their civilian derivatives for NASA.The Titan II used the LR-87-5 engine, a modified version of the LR-87, that used a hypergolic propellant combination of nitrogen tetroxide (NTO) for its oxidizer and Aerozine 50 (a 50/50 mix of hydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) instead of the liquid oxygen and RP-1 propellant of the Titan I.

  7. Bérénice (rocket) - Wikipedia

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    Bérénice french sounding rocket Bérénice (third rocket) as part of the Onera sounding rocket family. Bérénice was the designation of a four-stage French atmospheric reentry test rocket , developed by O.N.E.R.A. ( Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales ) .

  8. Comparison of orbital launch systems - Wikipedia

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    The following chart shows the number of launch systems developed in each country, and broken down by operational status. Rocket variants are not distinguished; i.e., the Atlas V series is only counted once for all its configurations 401–431, 501–551, 552, and N22.

  9. Comparison of orbital rocket engines - Wikipedia

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    This page is an incomplete list of orbital rocket engine data and specifications. Current, upcoming, and in-development rocket engines. Engine Origin Designer