The Regener barrel was the name of a scientific payload for the World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 V-2 rocket. Mid-1942 plans for subsequent launches to study upper-atmospheric guidance and science were not carried out due to the need for test launches and the eventual advance of the Russian armies. Instrumentation had been contracted on July 11, 1942; and the Research Foundation for the Physics of the Stratosphere was to develop the "Regener barrel" with a quartz barograph, a recording thermometer, an ultra-violet spectrograph, and an air sampler. By January 18, 1945, rumors of nearby Soviet tanks resulted in Erich Regener

Erich Regener

Erich Rudolf Alexander Regener was a German physicist known primarily for the design and construction of instruments to measure cosmic ray intensity at various altitudes....

's organizatino being sent from Peenemünde before the A-4 instrument package had been finished. The Regener-Tonne parachute was tested at Peenemünde

Peenemünde

The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office ....

 Prüfstand VII

Prüfstand VII

Prüfstand VII is a German film inspired by Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow....

and a mock-up was launched in January 1945.