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Vesta

Vesta

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March 2023

Categories:
All, Suborbital and Sounding Rockets

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Vesta was a French LRBA Nitric acid/Turpentine sounding rocket. In the late 1950’s LRBA (Laboratoire de Recherches Ballistiques et Aerodynamiques) studied several possible configurations for a ‘Super Veronique’ sounding rocket, with engines of 80 to 250 kN to carry a payload of 100 kg up to 600 km altitude. In 1962 CNES ordered the Vesta configuration. Static tests in 1964 led to a modest series of launches in 1965-1969.

Part count:  bricks, lots.

Unit width length height
Studs
Inches
Centimetres 
Nr   TypeNr Vehicle          Serial     Date            LS               Payload

66     1    Vesta             01        15.10.1965  *   Ha Blandine      FU-123
68     2    Vesta             02        25.10.1965  *   Ha Blandine      FU-123
81     3    Vesta             04        07.03.1967  *   Ha Blandine      FU-147 Bio (Macaca)
82     4    Vesta             05        13.03.1967  *   Ha Blandine      FU-147 Bio (Macaca)
92     5    Vesta             06        08.11.1969  *   Ko ALFS-V        FU-189 Star pointing test


Launch sites:

Ha  = Centre interarmées d’essais d’engins spéciaux (CIEES), Hammaguir, Algeria 
Ko  = Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), Kourou, French Guiana, France

Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de

Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de

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