Kappa (rocket)
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Kappa is also a number of Japanese sounding rocket
s, which were built starting from 1956.
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...
s, which were built starting from 1956.
Kappa 6 (in two stages)
- pay load: 20 kg
- Ceiling: 60 km
- Takeoff weight: 270 kg
- Diameter: 0,25 m
- Length: 5,61 m
Kappa 8 (in two stages)
- pay load: 50 kg
- Ceiling: 160 km
- Takeoff weight: 1500 kg
- Diameter: 0,42 m
- Length: 10,90 m
Kappa 9L
- Pay load: 15 kg
- Ceiling: 350 km
- Takeoff weight: 1550 kg
- Diameter: 0,42 m
- Length: 12,50 m
Kappa 9M
- Pay load: 50 kg
- Ceiling: 350 km
- Mass: 1500 kg
- Diameter: 0,42 m
- Length: 11,10 m
Kappa 8L
- Pay load: 25 kg
- Ceiling: 200 km
- Takeoff weight: 350 kg
- Diameter: 0,25 m
- Length: 7,30 m