Nike Apache
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nike Apache was a sounding rocket with a Nike rocket as first and an Apache rocket as upper stage. The Nike Apache was launched 697 times between 1958 and 1990.
- payload: 36 kg
- maximum altitude: 200 km
- takeoff thrust: 217 kN
- takeoff weight: 728 kg
- diameter: 0.42 m
- length: 8.31 m
- span: 1.52 m
- fuel: PU solid fuel
