The Aerobee rocket was a small (8 m) unguided suborbital sounding rocket used for high atmospheric and cosmic radiation research in the United States in the 1950s.[1]
Research utilizing V-2 rockets after World War II produced valuable results concerning the nature of cosmic rays, the solar spectrum, and the distribution of atmospheric ozone. The limited supply and the expense of assembling and firing the V-2 rockets led to the development of a low cost sounding rocket to be utilized for scientific research. This rocket, the Aerobee, was developed under the joint guidance of James Van Allen at the Applied Physics Laboratory and Rolf Sabersky at the Aerojet Corporation and was supported by the Navy Bureau of Ordnance and the Naval Office of Research and Inventions (later ONR). The Aerobee drastically reduced the cost of a single research mission.[2]
It was built by Aerojet General.[3] The company began work in 1946 and test fired the first complete Aerobee from the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico on November 24, 1947.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobee)
The meshes are autogenerated with RSB-Rocket Stage Builder (https://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=7104)
This project creates stages/rocket/launchers that are not custom created for Orbiter. Visualization improvments will come later as Rocket Stage Builder tool evolves.
Real specifications are used as data are available. Some data may contain aproximations(were no data are available).
Last update:- updated using latest RocketStegeBuilder- added materials
Launchers:- Aerobee RTV-N-8 - White Sands LC35
Required add-ons:- Multistage2015 - for Orbiter 2016(http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=7010)
Documentation:- Doc\RSB-Rockets\RSB-Aerobee.txt
Credits:- Fred18 for Multistage2015