The R-4 Experiment of the Scout Reentry Heating Project was successfully launched on August 18, 1964 at 2:05 a.m., EDT, from the Mark I launcher at Wallops Island, Virginia. All systems involved in the performance of the experiment operated exceptionally well. The perfect flight of the Scout was accompanied by equally good performance of the l7-inch spherical motor which was a part of the reentry package and imparted the final velocity increment to the reentry package after the fourth stage of the Scout had placed it in the proper trajectory. The preliminary radar velocity of 27,950 feet per second was less than 50 feet per second from the expected velocity of 27,993 feet per second. Impact was about 12 nautical miles from the planned point 1050 nautical miles downrange and 450 nautical miles southeast of Bermuda. The reentry was observed visually and photographed with spectrographic cameras, as well as streak and chop cameras by two NASA aircraft and a Sandia aircraft. CINE camera records were obtained by NASA ships, Range Recoverer and Sampan Hitch. The two NASA ships and two Air Force aircraft recorded telemetry data in the reentry area.
Scout Reentry Heating Project R-4 Experiment
1964
5 pages
Report
No indication
English
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