Brazil Reaches Space In Rocket From Hell

Aerospace Sunday, October 24, 2004. Post by Ricky James

The Vsb-30 is a composed vehicle of sounding for two periods of training that will have to be exported to the Space Agency Europia (ESA), that it intends to apply it in its program TEXUS. The rocket will be used also for the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) for the accomplishment of technological and scientific experiments, over all those related with the microgravity environment.

The project of the Vsb-30 contemplated diverse technological innovations in relation to the manufactured sounding rockets already in Brazil. Besides possessing a propellant to make to take off more quickly it (to booster), the Vsb-30 incorporates an impelling system of rolling and a set of empenas that guarantee greater precision in the flight.

The modules of the useful load and the vehicle shelter diverse equipment produced for the DLR (Centro German Espacial) and for the CTA/IAE, inside of an agreement of cooperation that retraces to the Seventies and that, in the last years, have support of the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB). These equipment allows, among others things, the accompaniment of the trajectory of the rocket for radar, telemetry and GPS, and the measurement of the temperature and the rotation of the vehicle.

The two first operational flights of the new rocket will have to occur in November of 2005 and May of 2006, both taking the 250 European experiments altitude km.

janra

October 24th, 2004 at 3:04 pm

Even if you don’t expect the copyright holder to complain, it’s still bad form. Surely the brazilians have a press release somewhere.

rickyjames

October 24th, 2004 at 3:48 pm

I was just especially grumpy this morning.  Sorry.

rickyjames

October 24th, 2004 at 4:09 pm

Janra, you are right as usual.  I have edited this article to purge it of blatant copyright infringement.  Taking the trouble to actually find and translate the actual press release as you suggest has led to a far superior headline.  Thanks for keeping me honest; feel free to do so in the future.

janra

October 24th, 2004 at 8:42 pm

That’s the trouble with editing articles in voting… the article I voted for is gone now, but I can’t change my vote. There’s a reason for the separation between edit queue and voting queue…

fatoudust

October 25th, 2004 at 11:23 pm

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