Boosted Arcas is the designation of an American sounding rocket, in which an Arcas rocket[1] was boosted using a first stage to improve the altitude and payload.
Variants of the Boosted Arcas were Boosted Arcas, Sparrow Arcas, Sidewinder Arcas, and Boosted Arcas II.[2]
- The Boosted Arcas consists of a first stage of an Atlantic Richfield booster[3] using a 0.8-KS-2700 solid propellant engine.[2]
- The Sparrow-Arcas[2] (or "Sparrow-HV Arcas"[1]) booster was based on the liquid-propellant AIM-7D Sparrow missile as a first stage.
- The Sidewinder-Arcas[2] (or "Sidewinder-HV Arcas"[1]) used the solid-propellant AIM-9B Sidewinder missile as a first-stage.
- The Boosted Arcas 2 used a MARC 42A1 booster.[2][4]
The maximum altitude of the Boosted Arcas amounts to 50 km, the takeoff thrust 1.00 kN, the diameter 0.11 m and the length 3.40 m. The Boosted Arcas was launched 78 times between 1963 and 1972.
References
edit- ^ a b c Andreas Parsch, "PWN-6", Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ a b c d e Bruce Bollerman, A Study of 30 km to 200 Km Meteorological Rocket sounding systems, Volume 1, Chapter 6.3.6, "Boosted Arcas,"' NASA Report CR-1529, May 1970, page 311-320. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Boosted Arcas". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on December 28, 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Boosted Arcas 2". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on December 27, 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
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