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LEX (sounding Rocket)
LEX (French: Lithergol EXpérimentale) was a French experimental Hybrid-propellant rocket, hybrid-propellant sounding rocket, developed by ONERA. It had the objective of testing a ''lithergol'' fueled rocket engine (an hybrid mixture of Solid-propellant rocket, solid and Liquid-propellant rocket, liquid propellants - Nylon-metatoluidine, tolueneamine as fuel and mixture of nitric acid and nitrogen tetroxide as Oxidizing agent, oxidizer). It was the first rocket in history to use this technology, flying 8 times between 1964 and 1967. The rocket had a single stage with a thrust of 10.00 kN (MT.27 hybrid rocket motor), a gross mass of 100 kg, a height of 3.40 m, and a diameter of 0.16 m, reaching an apogee of 130 km. Launches All LEX launches were carried out from CERES Ile du Levant. The first LEX-01 launch on 25 April 1964 was a partial success, with the payload consisting of a telemetry transmitter. Three LEX-02 rockets were fired on 1 June 1965. One of these ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LEX French Sounding Rocket
Lex or LEX may refer to: Computing * Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text * LEX (cipher), a stream cipher based on the round transformation of AES * Lex (software), a computer program that generates lexical analyzers * lex (URN), a URN namespace that allows accurate identification of laws and other legal norms Music * ''L.E.X.'', the third studio album by Liverpool Express * "Lex", a song from Ratatat's 2006 album Classics (Ratatat album), ''Classics'' * Lex (album), ''Lex'' (album), a mini-album and partial soundtrack by Portland, Oregon duo Visible Cloaks * Lex Records, an independent record label People and fictional characters * Lex (given name) * Lex (surname) * Lex Luger, ring name of American professional wrestler Lawrence Pfohl (born 1958) * Lex Steele, stage name of American pornographic actor Clifton Britt (born 1969) Places * Lex, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Lexington Avenue, a street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
