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The inaugural member of
The inaugural member of ONERA
The Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales ( English: National office for aerospace studies and research) or ONERA, dubbed ''The French Aerospace Lab'' in English, is the French national aerospace research center. Originally f ...
sounding rockets
A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital spaceflight, sub-orbital flight ...
fleet, the Tacite (Tentative d'Analyse du Contraste Infrarouge Terre-Espace, for ''Attempt to Analyze the Earth-Space Infrared Contrast''), was a single-stage vehicle, used between 1965 and 1968.
Description
Designed and developed by the ''Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales'' (ONERA), it was a single-stage vehicle equipped with a SEPR 739-2 ''Stromboli'' engine fueled by ‘''Plastoline''’ propellant, offering a propulsion duration of 20 seconds. The rocket incorporates smallnitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol N and atomic number 7. Nitrogen is a Nonmetal (chemistry), nonmetal and the lightest member of pnictogen, group 15 of the periodic table, often called the Pnictogen, pnictogens. ...
ejection nozzles to induce rotation and employs aerodynamic stabilization by a cruciform tailfin.
With a total mass of 1738 kg (excluding the useful tip), Tacite reached a height of nearly 8 meters. It had the capability to propel a 285 kg payload to an altitude of 160 km.
Launches
Operational between 1965 and 1968, this rocket underwent four launches, experiencing one failure.See also
*Tibère (rocket)
Tibère was a French atmospheric reentry test rocket developed by ONERA, O.N.E.R.A. (''Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales''). It evolved from its predecessor, Bérénice (rocket), Bèrènice, with development initiated in ...
* Bèrènice
* Antarès (OPd-56-39-22D)
The Antarès (OPd-56-39-22D) was a French multistage rocket designed by ONERA for reentry studies. In the late 1950s, the study of missile warhead reentry necessitated the development of a more robust rocket than the existing OR, VD and OPd serie ...
* Mélanie (rocket) Mélanie is a French solid rocket motor, 16 cm in diameter, initially used as first stage of the Monica rocket.
There are two versions, Mélanie and ''"2Mélanie"'' (exact name unknown) :
The first version was used on Monica I, II and IVA; w ...
* Veronique (rocket)
* French space program
The French space program includes both commercial spaceflight, civil and military spaceflight activities. It is the third oldest national space program in the world, after the Soviet space program, Soviet (now Roscosmos, Russian) and Space policy ...
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