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	The Information Zone - Articles
		In 1955, an Isle of Wight company (Saunders-Roe) based in East Cowes was awarded a contract for the building of the Black Knight Sounding Rocket to study the effects of when a vehicle re-enters the atmosphere at high speed.
		Initially, this was to design a re-entry vehicle for the Blue Streak warhead, but the programme broadened out into a wider research programme after the cancellation of Blue Streak in April 1960.
		Photo taken from a photo from inside the Old Needles Battery Rocket Info Room, so copyright is not really known but I got permission from the young lady curator of the Old Needle Battery.
	www.blackknights.org.uk /articleiow.htm (367 words)

	blackknight2
		Black Knight was later proposed as a second stage to a Black Prince (Blue Streak Satellite Launch Vehicle, BSSLV) launcher.
		A proposed variant of Black Knight was the "56" Black Knight" that used a
		Black Knight was fitted with a Cuckoo solid rocket motor to boost the RVs during tests.
	www.skomer.u-net.com /projects/blackknight.htm (115 words)

	Black Arrow: British Rocket Science and the Cold War
		Black Arrow would make maximum use of the existing Black Knight facilities, and the amount of new work required would be kept to an absolute minimum.
		Black Arrow's engines were an example of the practicality of the rocket's design.
		Britain had become a world leader in the use of this substance as a rocket propellant, and this rocket-engine knowledge was the key technological factor that allowed Britain to contemplate building a satellite launch vehicle.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701717/session4.html (932 words)

	Black Knight
		As in the case of all large British rockets, except for Blue Streak, it was powered by a mixture of kerosene and hydrogen peroxide – the same liquid propellant used by the German World War II Messerschmitt 262 interceptor.
		Consisting in its first version of a single-stage, 10.2 meters high, 1.8 meters in diameter, and weighing 5.4 tons at takeoff, Black Knight was propelled by an Armstrong-Siddeley Gamma 201 engine equipped with four swiveling nozzles that developed 75,000 newtons (N) of thrust during a burn time of 140-145 seconds.
		On Sep. 7, 1958, Black Knight 01 took off from Woomera and reached what was then a new record altitude of 564 km – an impressive achievement considering that the first Soviet and American satellites, Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1, had already been launched.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/Black_Knight.html (453 words)

	Black (Xbox) Reviews. Xbox Games Reviews by CNET.
		Black's first few levels are exciting, but the action movie formula wears thin fast, and the game's over not long after.
		Black earns its M rating with a boatload of cursing, but it still doesn't have any blood.
		Black is designed to sound like a big-time Hollywood action movie from top to bottom, and it does this pretty well.
	reviews.cnet.com /Black_Xbox/4505-9582_7-31570958.html (1888 words)

	Blast Off! Techers' Notes
		Rockets are particularly useful for moving in space where there is nothing for a vehicle to push against, or forces such as friction and gravity, to aid movement.
		The Black Knight rocket was designed to study the effects of re-ntry on a vehicle re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
		However, the information was used as part of a broader rocket research programme and after the demise of the Blue Streak missile programme, the Black Knight missile was re-developed into the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicle after 1965.
	www.nms.ac.uk /blastoff!techersnotes.aspx (1235 words)

	Black Knight (rocket) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Black Knight was a British attempt to design a re-entry vehicle for the Blue Streak missile.
		The United Kingdom's first home-grown rocketry project, Black Knight was manufactured on the Isle of Wight and tested at Woomera in Australia.
		After 1965 the Black Knight missile was re-developed into the Black Arrow Satellite launch vehicle.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/bl/Black%20Knight%20%28rocket%29.htm (122 words)

	Woomera
		Black Knight missile of the United Kingdom was launched from the Australian range at Woomera to an altitude of over 300 miles.
		A failure of stabilising fins meant that the rocket fell far short of the planned 330-km apogee and the scramjet experiment was not conducted.
		The nosecone of the rocket failed to jettison and therefore scramjet ignition was not achieved.
	www.astronautix.com /sites/woomera.htm (6508 words)

	GameShark \| Nintendo DS \| Previews \| Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime Preview
		Rocket Slime tells the tale of Rocket, a slime that managed to survive the destruction of his home town and a mass kidnapping of his kinsfolk at the hands of an insidious race called the Plobs.
		Rocket is one of those accidental heroes, who just happens to be at the right place at the right time doing the wrong thing.
		Rocket uses a stretching method not unlike a rubber band to snap at his enemies and send them flying in the air.
	www.gameshark.com /nintendo-ds/previews/3176/Dragon-Quest-Heroes-Rocket-Slime-Preview.htm (1130 words)

	British Rockets and Satellite Launchers. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The budget for Black Knight in 1956 was of the order of £5million, and some estimates were made that suggested that an individual rocket cost £41 000 on leaving the Saunders Roe factory at Cowes, which included £15 000 for the Armstrong Siddeley engine.
		While the early Black Knights were simple single stage rockets, later ones had a solid fuel rocket motor added, derived from the highly successful Skylark rocket.
		Looking at the sketch plan of Black Knight at the top of the page, then this may be taken as an enlargement of the very top of the rocket.
	members.aol.com /nicholashl/ukspace/bk/black_knight.htm (2143 words)

	In-flight propellant transfer spaceplane design and testing considerations
		Black Horse In order to examine the utility of the inflight propellant transfer concept, and its application to military requirements, a contracted six-week study between Phillips Laboratory, WJ Schafer Associates, and Conceptual Research Corporation developed this concept further.
		It must be stressed that the Black Horse study was not undertaken to provide a launcher for any particular class of payloads, but to examine a particular technology for military utility.
		Criticisms of Black Horse In the year since the initial design work for the Black Horse inflight propellant transfer spaceplane was performed, several organizations have raised concerns about the viability of the concept.
	www.ai.mit.edu /projects/im/ftp/magnus/black-horse.txt (6807 words)

	Black Arrow: British Rocket Science and the Cold War
		Black Arrow R2 would be the first to carry a fully working satellite into orbit.
		The Black Arrow (and Black Knight) vehicles were held down until the 'instant of move' (lift-off) by a pneumatic release jack clamped to the underside of the first stage.
		The R2 rocket climbed perfectly and arced gracefully to the north, the setbacks of the past year apparently evaporating in its wake.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701717/session5.html (1547 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Black Hawk Helicopters Work"
		Although it was not designed to be an assault vehicle like the Apache, the Black Hawk must be loaded with equipment for the crew and passengers to protect themselves in flight and on the ground.
		Crossing the battlefield, the Black Hawk is an inviting target for enemy gun fire and anti-aircraft fire.
		The Black Hawk is a product of the Vietnam War in as much as it was developed to address the weaknesses of Vietnam-era helicopters.
	science.howstuffworks.com /black-hawk.htm/printable (2431 words)

	Space Today Online - X Prize experimental private manned space rockets
		The da Vinci Project's Wild Fire rocket was to be lifted from a launch site near Kindersley, Saskatchewan, by a reusable helium balloon to an altitude of 80,000 feet near space from where the rocket engines would fire and propel pilot Brian Feeney on the 62-mi.-high suborbital space ride.
		Their rocket was to be launched on a suborbital flight from the Washington coast out over the Pacific Ocean and then parachute down into the ocean to be retrieved by boat or helicopter.
		The prize was awarded by the X Prize Foundation to the team that designed the first private spaceship that successfully carried the equivalent weight of three human beings to a sub-orbital altitude of 100 km (62.14 miles) on two consecutive flights within two weeks.
	www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/X_Prize.html (2270 words)

	Black Horse - pre-FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First, it is a gesture of respect to the British "Black Knight" and "Black Arrow" programs, which used hydrogen peroxide and kerosene as rocket propellants.
		Black Arrow put the 100 kg Prospero satellite in a polar orbit in October 1971.
		Secondly, there is Native American symbolism to Black Horses, said among the plains indians to have powers the ordinary horses lack.
	www.islandone.org /Launch/BlackHorse-Notes.html (476 words)

	Black Knight
		Black Knight missiles of the United Kingdom was launched from the Australian range at Woomera to an altitude of over 500 km.
		Black Knight used 4 chambers in two pairs on the Y and Z axes.
		Black Knight was flown in both one and two stage versions.
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/lvs/blanight.htm (177 words)

	Black Knight test vehicle
		In its first version Black Knight was a single-stage rocket propelled by a liquid propellant Armstrong-Siddeley Gamma 201 engine equipped with four swiveling nozzles.
		This rocket was 10.2 m high and 91 cm in diameter, and weighed 5.4 t at takeoff.
		Black Knight could have been abandoned in its turn if it had not found an application as part of the Gaslight program, carried out in co-operation with the United States and Australia.
	www.sat-net.com /serra/bknig_e.htm (511 words)

	M-5 "Dark Knight" Main Battle Tank
		The M-5 "Dark Knight" was an produced for the United States Armed Forces during the Global Civil War of the late 1990's as an upgraded version of the M1A2 Abrams tank.
		In practice the Black Knight was incapable of hitting targets traveling at speeds greater than 150 kph and as such as soon as the Destroid and Veritech squadrons became fully operation in 2009 the remaining Black Knights were placed into reserve.
		The Black Knight continued to soldier on for nearly a decade more as it was given to the newly formed Armies of the Southern Cross for which used the M-5 in combat operations in South American to varying degrees of success.
	www.robotechresearch.com /rpg/vehicles/Rdf/MBT_Dark_Knight/dark_knight.html (1267 words)

	Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Within minutes of the mission's start, however, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in an ambush, crashing into the streets of Mogadishu.
		What began as a get-in, get-out surgical strike quickly turned into an every-man-for-himself fight for survival amid flying bullets and rocket-fired grenades, but also to recover the bodies of their fallen comrades.
		Delta Force: Black Hawk Down--which benefits from the guidance of Special Operations Forces advisors to keep it accurate--offers a detailed opportunity for the player to get the feel for what it was like in Mogadishu that day.
	www.nvidia.com /object/nzone_blackhawkdown_description.html (270 words)

	DesCon 9: Astron Black Space Knight
		For some reason the Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail always stuck in my memory, simple absurdity at its finest.....kind of like the Estes Spaceman kit.
		The basis for the gag in the movie was an imposing figure reduced to a torso at the end of the scene.
		The rocket had to go from a flying model at the outset and return as just a torso.
	www.rocketreviews.com /reviews/descon9/astron_spaceknight.html (867 words)

	ARRLWeb: Ham Radio-Carrying Rocket Exceeds Goal; Avionics Recovered Intact
		Stratofox was able to zero in on signals from the fallen rocket, which came down in rugged, mountainous terrain some 25 miles downrange of the launch site.
		Knight says that after the rocket's return, the team was pretty quickly able to determine within a mile where it had landed, but it took another 24 hours for the Stratofox team to pin it down and recover the entire payload.
		The rocket's spin--about nine cycles per second--caused the video to blur after that, but Knight said the team hopes to recover some individual video frames using computerized techniques.
	www.arrl.org /news/stories/2004/05/19/1/?nc=1 (760 words)

	Black Knight (rocket) (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Sorry, "Black Knight (rocket)" still seems to be on our 'things to do' list...
		The problem of panel flutter with reference to the Blue Streak and Black Knight vehicles, (Aeronautical Research Council)
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Black_Knight_(rocket) (41 words)

	ROCKETS ON THE CHEAP: Historic Launch
		On June 21 in the Mojave desert, history could be made, as a privately-developed rocket plane will launch on a mission to become the world's first commercial manned space vehicle -- a mission that could have major implications for military space applications (as well as the space-launching capabilities of other nations).
		The White Knight is a manned, twin-turbojet research aircraft intended for high-altitude missions.
		Currently, launching a rocket (and satellites) into space is a mammoth multi-million dollar project -- but if SpaceShipOne and the other rockets competing for the Ansari X Prize prove that space travel can be done at a relatively cheap cost, the possibilities for military application are manifold.
	www.military.com /soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_Launch,,00.html (1460 words)

	MERIP Op-Eds: Why Black Hawks Go Down/Ian Urbina
		Yet when the two US Black Hawks went down, an entire city seemed to drop its internal differences and attack the very forces that were there to feed them.
		Three months prior to the downing of the Black Hawks, the UN and US decided to put pressure on Aideed by attacking a meeting of his native Habr Gidr clan.
		Somalia was a lesson in the danger of ignoring failed states, and the longer-term political and monetary policies which contribute to their demise.
	www.merip.org /newspaper_opeds/IA-Black_Hawks_Go_Down.html (878 words)

	CNN.com - Amateur rocket fizzles in record attempt - Sep. 27, 2002
		An amateur-built rocket fell apart seconds after takeoff from a secret Nevada launch site this month, dashing hopes that it would fly beyond the edge of space.
		However, the rocket experienced motor failure during the flight and the flight was terminated," said Eric Knight, co-leader of the CSXT mission.
		The upgraded model was a 17-foot, 511-pound, single-stage vehicle, powered by solid rocket fuel similar to that in the detachable boosters that push the space shuttles into orbit.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/TECH/space/09/27/rocket.failure/index.html (383 words)

	ESA - Space Science - 28 October
		Prospero, a Black Knight 1 satellite was launched into orbit by a Black Arrow rocket from Woomera, Australia.
		The Black Arrow was a three-stage rocket, 13 metres high.
		The development of the space launcher Black Arrow began in 1964 under direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/SEM9ED0A90E_index_0.html (121 words)

	leyton.org » Black Knight on BBC’s ‘Coast’
		I was taken aback to see that they focused quite heavily on the Black Knight rocket programme that my grandfather, Paul Leyton was Chief Rocket engineer for, for a few years in the 1950’s.
		It was an excellent piece, showing how Britain led the US for a brief period, and the culmination of the rocket programme was the launch of a satellite, that is still in orbit, transmitting a weak signal.
		For visitors from the BBC interested in knowing more about Black Knight, take a look at my previous post summarising my grandfather, Paul Leyton’s, obituaries, which features lots of detail about the Black Knight programme.
	www.leyton.org /diary/2006/10/30/black-knight-on-bbcs-coast (442 words)

	Black Knight (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On 24 May, 1960, the sixth Black Knight took to the sky as a two-stage version with the nose cone being recovered after a successful mission.
		The single-stage Black Knight had an overall length of 10.16 metres, while the two-stage version was 11.6 metres long.
		The diameter was 0.91 metres with a span across the fins of 2.13 metres.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~woomera/bknight.htm (248 words)

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		The agreement for the launch of the DIRECTV 8 onboard the Proton rocket was announced on on July 13, 2004.
		In preparatuion for the launch the rocket with its payload was rolled to the launch pad on May 18, 2005.
		The flight version of the Proton-M rocket arrived to Baikonur in July 2000 and at the time its first test launch was expected as early as August 2000.
	www.lycos.com /info/rocket--launch.html (425 words)

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