Wasp Credit - via Andreas Parsch

Wasp research and develoment chaff and parachute rockets were used to obtain wind soundings to 260,000 m, fired by Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility at WSPG.

3 stage vehicle consisting of 2 x Recruit + 1 x Pollux + 1 x Antares

Manufacturer: NASA. Launches: 1. First Launch Date: 1966-06-07. Last Launch Date: 1966-06-07. Launch data is: complete. Apogee: 240 km (140 mi). Liftoff Thrust: 580.000 kN (130,380 lbf). Total Mass: 6,800 kg (14,900 lb). Core Diameter: 0.79 m (2.59 ft). Total Length: 14.70 m (48.20 ft).

1956 December 11 - Launch Vehicle: Wasp.

• Wasp soundings to 160,000 feet. Nation: USA. Twenty-four Wasp research and develoment chaff and parachute rockets, used to obtain wind soundings to 160,000 feet, were fired by Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility at WSPG. References: 17.

• WASP slosh test Technology mission Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Apogee: 238 km (147 mi). References: 734.

• McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

• Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. Accessed at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html.