VSB-30 SOUNDING ROCKET: HISTORY OF FLIGHT PERFORMANCE. DOI: 10.5028/jatm.2011.03032211

Authors

  • Alexandre Garcia IAE
  • Sidney Servulo Cunha Yamanaka IAE
  • Alexandre Nogueira Barbosa IAE
  • Francisco Carlos Parquet Bizarria IAE
  • Wolfgang Jung German Aerospace Center
  • Frank Scheuerpflug German Aerospace Center

Keywords:

VSB-30, Sounding rocket, Trajectory, Performance.

Abstract

The VSB-30 vehicle is a two-stage, unguided, rail launched sounding rocket, consisting of two solid propellant motors, payload, with recovery and service system. By the end of 2010, ten vehicles had already been launched, three from Brazil (Alcântara) and seven from Sweden (Esrange). The objective of this paper is to give an overview of the main characteristics of the first ten flights of the VSB-30, with emphasis on performance and trajectory data. The circular 3? dispersion area for payload impact point has around 50 km of radius. In most launchings of such vehicle, the impact of the payload fell within 2 sigma. This provides the possibility for further studies to decrease the area of dispersion from the impact point.

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Published

2012-01-03

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2011): Sep./Dec. 2011

Section

Communications

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