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	CSA - The Black Brant rocket, a Canadian invention
		The Black Brant rocket grew out of the Canada's need to study the ionosphere and the aurora borealis, mainly visible in Canada's far north.
		Black Brant sounding rockets are still used by CSA and NASA for suborbital research.
		The Black Brant rocket consists of two parts: a solid propellant engine and a payload.
	www.space.gc.ca /asc/eng/sciences/black_brant.asp?printer=1 (506 words)

	BLACK BRANT SOUNDING ROCKETS
		Black Brant is a solid propellant rocket system in single and multistage configurations that can carry payloads of 70-850kg to altitudes from 150km to more than 1500km.
		Black Brants are launched from conventional boom rails or 3 to 4 fin towers.
		Whether studying the upper atmosphere or conducting micro-gravity research, the Black Brant is the most reliable, cost-effective, and available sounding rocket to carry experiments to the fringes of space.
	www.bristol.ca /BlackBrant.html (263 words)

	Polar Cusp: Rocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Now sounding rockets are used in part to understand space weather at much higher altitudes, in this case up to almost 800 km (less than 500 miles) above the Earth's surface.
		During the launch and ascent, the first two stages (the Terrier and Black Brant VC stages) are jettisoned while the last stage remains attached to the "Payload" where the instruments reside.
		These sections point the rocket in the correct direction during the flight so that the measurements from the instruments can be properly interpreted, and beam the scientific data back to earth using a high speed radio link (up to 6 megabits/second!).
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /PolarCusp/rocket/index.htm (338 words)

	Black Brant Project - Home
		The Black Brant Project is proving to be the most ambitious and daring project to come down the road in a long time.
		Black Brant will be hauling Rocket Mail at BALLS, contact Bruce Kelly to have your letter fly with the Black Brant.
		The Tripoli Rocket Association Board of Directors has voted to approve the flight of the Black Brant in September of 2004.
	blackbrant2.com (3730 words)

	Black Brant II
		Black Brant II The Estes Black Brant II(TM) kit was the second model rocket I completed.
		The Black Brant II is a "scale" model of a Canadian sounding rocket.
		The Black Brant II had an impressive cover at least compared to the other Estes and Quest kits available at my local hobby store.
	www.jcrocket.com /blackbrant.shtml (428 words)

	NASA - Goddard Rocket Garden
		All of these rockets are missing their launcher guides and solid rocket propellants and many are also missing the fins supplied with the Nike motors, which were detached due to their size and breakability.
		Black Brant VIII Sounding Rocket:This is a two stage general purpose launch vehicle developed by Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg, Canada.
		Weighing in at 114,170 pounds, the rocket was able to generate 175,000lbs of thrust during it's first stage, while generating 7,575lbs per 170 seconds and 2,760lbs per 42 seconds in it's second and third stages respectively.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/goddard/visitor/exhibits/rocket_garden.html (1165 words)

	NASA Sounding Rockets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The rockets come in a variety of sizes from the single-stage Super Arcas which stands 7-feet (3 meters) high to the four-stage Black Brant XII which stands at 65 feet (20 meters) tall.
		These rockets allow scientists to conduct investigations at a specified time and place and they provide the only means of making in-situ measurements at altitudes between the maximum altitudes for balloons (about 30 miles or 48 kilometers) and the minimum altitude for satellites (100 miles or 161 kilometers).
		In addition, the sounding rocket provides a reasonably economic means of conducting engineering tests of instruments and devices used on satellites and other spacecraft prior to their use in more expensive activities.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /gsfc/lithos/srockets/srockets.htm (526 words)

	Black Brant
		A Canadian sounding rocket, more than 800 of which have been launched since September 1959 with a success rate of 98%.
		The current model, the Black Brant XII, produced by Bristol Aerospace in single or multistage configurations, can carry payloads of 70-850 kg to altitudes of 150-1,500 km.
		The Black Brant grew out of Canada's need to study the ionosphere and the aurora borealis, primarily because the latter interferes with telecommunications – an issue of increasing importance during the Cold War when the rocket was introduced.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/Black_Brant.html (156 words)

	CNN - Rocket that spooked Moscow in 1995 goes up again - January 21, 1999
		A Black Brant XXII research rocket to study the Northern Lights atmospheric phenomenon lifted off at 0613 GMT from Norway's Andoeya Island base to a height of 1,360 km (850 miles), about 20 km higher than predicted.
		The so-called CAPER (Cleft Accelerated Plasma Experimental Rocket) was of the same type that triggered a nuclear alert for Russian President Boris Yeltsin four years ago.
		For a few minutes back then, the old Black Brant rocket prompted fears in Russia that a surprise attack was under way, leaving Yeltsin and his top aides to ponder a possible retaliatory strike.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/space/9901/21/rocket.launch/index.html (353 words)

	USATODAY.com - Aurora rocket malfunctions, crashes north of Fairbanks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Wreckage from the rocket was spotted in the rocket range's impact zone in the White Mountains.
		The rocket was part of a project by Kristina Lynch, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.
		The rocket was to fly through the aurora and investigate how and why the aurora moves and appears the way it does on Earth, Hartley said.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-03-07-aurora-rocket_x.htm (535 words)

	PML Black Brant
		Rocket still needs alot of work but I wanted to take a picture to show how big it is.
		After the rocket was completed, I measured the center of gravity and found it wasn't 1 caliper (4") before the CP so I added some nose cone weight to shift the CG forward 2".
		The Black Brant X all finished and ready to be painted.
	www.joecool.org /pml_black_brant.htm (484 words)

	Bristol of Canada Black Brant
		This was the Black Brant II (3 fins) and Black Brant IIA (4 fins).
		The Black Brant V was essentially a Black Brant II with an improved propellant, a lighter casing, smaller fins and a redesigned nose cone.
		The Black Brant 8 (an arabic numeral appears to be favoured for this designation) was the combination of a BB V with a Nike booster.
	www.designation-systems.net /dusrm/app4/blackbrant.html (1340 words)

	Black Brant
		By the end of 1968, NASA had fired two Black Brant IVs: one with a Canadian payload from Wallops Island on May 7, 1968, and a second from Brazil with a radiation payload provided by the Manned Spacecraft Center, on June 11,1968.
		Twelve Canadian Black Brant rockets for upper-atmosphere research were to be launched from NASA's Wallops Station, Virginia, as the Canadian Defence Research Board shifted the firing site from Fort Churchill because a fire largely destroyed the Canadian facilities.
		Capable of carrying a 150-pound payload to an altitude of 150 miles, Black Brants were to be fired from Wallops at the rate of two in December 1961, two in February 1962, six in April 1962, and two in May 1962.
	www.astronautix.com /lvs/blabrant.htm (4012 words)

	Black Brant VB
		Black Brant VB Public Missiles Limited recently introduced a new type of tubing to replace their traditional paper phenolic tubing.
		Of course, the Black Brants are perennial favorites to model and I'd only done one so far (the Estes kit).
		The motor had pushed up inside the rocket and the fins were gone, but the body tube was mostly intact.
	www.jcrocket.com /blackbrantvb.shtml (489 words)

	Black Brant (rocket) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over 800 Black Brants of various versions have been launched since they were first produced in 1961, and the type remains one of the most popular sounding rockets ever built, with a 98% success rate.
		Black Brant was the result of research at CARDE during the 1950s into the nature of the upper atmosphere as part of ongoing research into anti-ballistic missile systems and very-long-range communication.
		The resulting design was quite heavy for sounding rocket use, as it was designed to be able to accommodate a wide variety of engine burning times, propellant loadings and launch angles in keeping with its role as a test vehicle for ABM systems development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Brant_(rocket) (593 words)

	Norwegian rocket incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rocket, which carried equipment to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, flew on a high northbound trajectory, eventually reaching an altitude of 1,453 km (908 miles).
		As the rocket climbed, it was detected by the Olenegorsk early warning radar station in Russia.
		To the radar operators, the rocket appeared similar in speed and flight pattern to a U.S. submarine-launched Trident missile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident (291 words)

	Sounding Rocket Data
		Sounding rockets are scientific research rockets used to study the upper atmosphere and space beyond.
		The Black Brant VI was a small meteorological rocket created by Canada's Bristol Aerospace.
		Sometimes called the Nike-Black Brant, this rocket combines a Nike booster with a Black Brant V upper stage.
	www.yellowjacketsystems.com /alway/sounding_rocket.htm (247 words)

	Canada Science and Technology Museum
		One of the artifacts, the NIKE rocket launcher, was used by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to launch Black Brant 3 sounding rockets for high atmosphere exploration.
		The rocket launcher, collected by the Museum in 1986, was an instant candidate for this exhibit.
		The Restoration Division was charged with the task of returning the launcher to the original colour scheme used by the NRC at the testing station in Churchill and to have the launching ramp's hydraulics made operable so that the launcher could be exhibited with a Black Brant rocket on the ramp in an elevated position.
	www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca /english/collection/nike_rocket.cfm (346 words)

	Dartmouth News - Researcher studies aurora borealis secrets - 02/18/03
		This Terrier-Black Brant IX rocket, launched from Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range on Jan. 27, carried a special instrument designed by Dartmouth Physics Professor James LaBelle, staff engineer Hank Harjes and graduate student Marilia Samara, that measured characteristics of high-frequency waves and turbulence in the aurora borealis.
		Mounted on the 50-foot rocket was a special instrument designed, fabricated and calibrated by LaBelle, staff engineer Hank Harjes and graduate student Marilia Samara to gather information about high-frequency waves and turbulence in the aurora.
		Although many rockets have been launched into the aurora, the instrument created by LaBelle, Harjes and Samara was able to capture an unprecedented amount of data about high-frequency waves in the ionosphere, according to LaBelle.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/2003/feb/021803f.html (666 words)

	NASA -
		That rocket will carry several new instruments for measuring ozone high in the Earth's atmosphere, and those measurements will be compared to data derived from two instruments released into orbit by Discovery.
		The METEORS instruments will be carried in the top portion of the Black Brant rocket and will begin measurements at an altitude of approximately 30 miles (after the nose cone is deployed).
		In addition, two small rockets will be launched, one prior to and one after the METEORS launch, to measure temperatures in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
	www.nasa.gov /lb/centers/langley/news/releases/1997/Aug97/97_99.html (527 words)

	Black Brant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Brant or Pacific Brent Goose, Branta bernicla nigricans, is a sub-species of the Brent Goose that breeds in Alaska and winters in Baja California.
		There are an estimated 115,000 fl brant in the world and about 14,000 are taken each year by hunters.
		Black Brant Geese, an indicator of wildlife sustainability in the Georgia Basin Environment Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Brant (302 words)

	Sounding rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying suborbital rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its flight.
		The rockets are commonly used to take readings or carry instruments from 50 to 1,500 kilometers (30–932 mi) above the surface of the Earth, the altitude in between weather balloons and satellites, the region above the maximum altitude for balloons is approximately 40 km and the minimum for satellites is approximately 120 kilometers (75 mi)
		The rocket consumes its fuel on the first stage of the rising part of the flight, then separates and falls away, leaving the payload to complete the arc and return to the ground with a parachute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sounding_rocket (394 words)

	Rocket to the Aurora: Rockets
		Auroral Sounding rockets are used to study properties of auroral arcs by flying specially developed instrument packages high into the ionosphere.
		These rockets typically have a series of solid rocket motor stages and a payload section in the nosecone which carries scientific instruments.
		The UC Berkeley rocket is a Black Brant XII model with 4 stages of solid fuel.
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /aurora_rocket/rockets/welcome.html (251 words)

	EMRR's Review: Cosmodrome Rocketry - Black Brant II
		I bought a Black Brant II from Cosmodrome because I loved the Estes Brant kit when it was available, and I got tired of waiting for the Estes re-issue....
		I replaced the steel shock cord that was included in the kit with aircraft cable of the same diameter after it was almost severed by crimping (with a hammer) the ferrule onto it.
		True to the simulation, the rocket zoomed off the pad straight as an arrow to an estimated 800 or 900 ft., and deployed perfectly at max altitude.
	www.rocketreviews.com /reviews/kits/cos_black_brant.html (2028 words)

	Incident shows hair-triggers to a nuclear war still cocked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The rocket was designed to study the Northern Lights, but when it rose above the horizon, it turned into another kind of experiment -- a test of the hair-trigger posture that still dominates the control of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons.
		The rocket was detected by Russian early warning radars.
		Although the Norwegian rocket fell into the ocean, it triggered a heightened level of alert throughout the Russian strategic forces, according to testimony to the U.S. Congress, and other sources.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/98/03/16/russia-nukes.2-0.html (1125 words)

	White Sands Missile Range
		During a pre-launch vertical test for Terrier Black Brant rocket firing, Danny Mower's name was emblazoned in bold letters along the side of the vehicle.
		The rocket, which was fired Aug. 28, 1995 carried a scientific payload for the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland.
		During a rocket launch, they coordinate activities at the launch area, interface with missile range control, conduct the countdown and provide the fire signal to launch the vehicle.
	www.wsmr.army.mil /pao/whatsUp/wu40.htm (352 words)

	Black Brant Project - Bend Strength
		The first step in the process was to determine the maximum dynamic pressure on the rocket.
		This was done by dividing the force on the nose cone (DRAG) by it's equivalent flat plat area.
		The next step was to determine the total area presented to the air stream when the rocket is at a 90 angle of attack.
	www.blackbrant2.com /drag.htm (165 words)

	Astrophysics Sounding Rockets : Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The white rocket shown in this view of Missile Park is a liquid-fueled Aerobee, the main workhorse of scientific sounding rockets for over 20 years.
		Today's sounding rockets are solid-fueled, and are much easier to prepare for launch as a result.
		The primary workhorse of today's astronomy rocket payloads is the Black Brant IX, also known as a Terrier-Black Brant, which uses a Terrier rocket as a booster (first stage) and a Black Brant V rocket as a sustainer (second stage).
	www.astro.psu.edu /xray/rockets/standing_rockets.html (145 words)

	Untitled
		The first project Canada launched which could be called space research was the development of the Black Brant rocket.
		The resulting design, the Black Brant, was produced first by the Bristol Company in England and, in 1959, was taken over by Canadair.
		In its various versions, it was the work horse of Canadian upper atmospheric research with many launchings from the rocket range at Churchill, Manitoba.
	www.physics.uoguelph.ca /summer/scor/articles/scor50.htm (649 words)

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