Cajun Dart
Encyclopedia
Cajun Dart is the designation of an American
sounding rocket
. The Cajun Dart was used 87 times between 1964 and 1970. The Cajun
rocket motor was developed from Deacon
.
Staged
on top of a Nike rocket, it was part of the Nike-Cajun
sounding rocket; it was also used as part of the Terasca
three-stage rocket.
United States
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sounding rocket
Sounding rocket
A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The origin of the term comes from nautical vocabulary, where to sound is to throw a weighted line from a ship into...
. The Cajun Dart was used 87 times between 1964 and 1970. The Cajun
Cajun (rocket)
The Cajun was an American sounding rocket developed during the 1950s. It was extensively used for scientific experiments by NASA and the United States military between 1956 and 1976.-Development:...
rocket motor was developed from Deacon
Deacon (rocket)
Deacon is the designation of an American sounding rocket. The Deacon was launched 90 times from 1947 to 1957 from Wallops Island. The Deacon has a maximum flight height of 20 kilometers and a pay load ability of 17 kilograms...
.
Staged
Multistage rocket
A multistage rocket is a rocket that usestwo or more stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem or serial stage is mounted on top of another stage; a parallel stage is attached alongside another stage. The result is effectively two or more rockets stacked on top of or...
on top of a Nike rocket, it was part of the Nike-Cajun
Nike-Cajun
The Nike-Cajun was a two-stage sounding rocket built by combining a Nike base stage with a Cajun upper stage. It was launched 714 times between 1956 and 1976 and was the most frequently used sounding rocket of the western world...
sounding rocket; it was also used as part of the Terasca
Terasca
Terasca, or Terrier-ASROC-Cajun, was an American three-stage sounding rocket developed and launched by the United States Navy. Derived from a combination of the Terrier, ASROC and Cajun rockets, three launches were attempted during 1959, but only one was successful.-Design and development:The...
three-stage rocket.
Specs
- Takeoff thrust: 36 kN
- Maximum flight height: 74 km
- Takeoff weight: 100 kg
- Diameter: 0.17 m
- Length: 4.10 m