Payload, ARCAS Sounding Rocket
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Atlantic Research Corp.
- Summary
- The ARCASONDE® 3 was a general purpose telemetry package designed to send back data during the flight of an ARCAS sounding rocket (NASM Catalogue #19660589000). It had instrumentation capable of transmitting atmospheric temperature, wind and pressure data. This commercial unit was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Atlantic Research Corporation of Alexandria Virginia in 1966. Atlantic, the manufacturer, supplied ARCAS systems to the Air Force and to Langley as early as 1958. This eaxmple was displayed by the U.S. Information Agency in the late 1960s and in the NASM Satellites gallery in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Atlantic Research Corporation
- Inventory Number
- A19660590000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Weather
- Materials
- Base: aluminum
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 33 x 10.8cm (13 x 4 1/4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Space Science
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19660590000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9a0d4b257-612c-4d32-a76c-abd32448aa07
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