Zenit sounding rocket

Zenit sounding rocket

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Zenit is the name for a sounding rocket developed in Switzerland. The Zenit was a single-step rocket with a length of 5.6 meters, a diameter of 0.42 meter and a takeoff weight of 610 kilograms. Propelled by a solid-propellant engine which supplied a thrust between 45 kN at launch and 22 kN in flight, the Zenit could carry a payload of 25 kilograms to a height of 210 km or a payload of 130 kilograms to a height of 115 km. At its maiden flight on October 27, 1967 at Salto di Quirra the Zenit topped 145 km. The Zenit was later launched only twice — once on July 30, 1971 at Salto di Quirra with a British Cuckoo rocket as a starting stage and once on December 13, 1973 at Andøya likewise with a "Cuckoo" starting stage.

External links

* [http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/zenit.htm Swiss Sounding rocket Zenit]
* [http://www.univ perp.fr/fuseurop/zenit_e.htm A sounding rocket of the type Zenit is shown before the Hermann Oberth Museum in Feucht (near Nuremberg)]


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