Nike Smoke
A Nike Smoke being inspected.
The Nike Smoke was a sounding rocket, part of a research project on the behavior of the horizontal winds in the upper atmosphere, developed by NASA in the 1960s based on the Nike booster. The goal was to obtain more accurate data on the behavior of these winds in order to guide the design of new vehicles.[1]
In the early 1960s, NASA's Nike Smoke project was developed at the Langley Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center laboratories, to study horizontal wind speed and its influence on rocket flights. The Nike booster was chosen due to its high reliability and availability, as thousands were manufactured to meet the requirements of Project Nike.[1]
A Nike Smoke tip, showing air intake (black).
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External links
- Air Force Space & Missile Museum - Launch Complex 43
- NASA - Wind Velocity Profiles by the Smoke-Trail method - Wallops Island, 1965-1969
- NASA - Cultural Resources Nike Smoke YouTube video.
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