Daniel (rocket)
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|name = Daniel
|function = Experimental rocket
|manufacturer = ONERA
|country-origin = France
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|height = {{cvt|8.4|m}}
|diameter = {{cvt|0.4|m}}
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|mass = {{cvt|1000|kg}}
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|stages = 3
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|derivatives = Jericho (missile)
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|status = Retired
|sites = CERES - Ile de Levant
|launches = 3
|success = 3
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|stageno = First
|name = SPRAN-50
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|length = {{cvt|2.5|m}}
|diameter = {{cvt|0.4|m}}
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|gross = {{cvt|400|kg}}
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|burntime = 5.6 s
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{{Infobox rocket/stage
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|stageno = Third
|name = Melanie
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|length = {{cvt|1.60|m}}
|diameter = {{cvt|0.16|m}}
|width =
|empty = {{cvt|10|kg}}
|gross = {{cvt|32|kg}}
|propmass = {{cvt|22|kg}}
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|solid = yes
|thrust = {{cvt|11.10|kN}}
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|SI = {{convert|227|isp}}
|burntime = 4.4 s
|fuel = Solid
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}}
Daniel (OPD-220-ADX) is the designation for a French experimental rocket, a precursor to the Israeli Jericho ballistic missile.{{cite web |last=Wade |first=Mark |date=2019 |title=Daniel |url=http://www.astronautix.com/d/daniel.html |website=Encyclopedia Astronautica |access-date=2023-11-11 |archive-date=2022-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516044056/http://astronautix.com/d/daniel.html |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |last=Serra |first=Jean-Jacques |date=2007-01-13 |title=ONERA rockets |url=http://fuseurop.univ-perp.fr/onera_e.htm |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=Rockets in Europe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070113212303/http://fuseurop.univ-perp.fr/onera_e.htm |archive-date=2007-01-13 }}
Description
It consisted of 3 stages: a SPRAN-50 first stage, a Jericho second stage and a Mélanie third stage.{{cite book|author=Christophe Rothmund|title=History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics : Toulouse, France, 2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODxSAQAAIAAJ|year=2010|publisher=American Astronautical Society|isbn=978-0-87703-555-8}} Daniel was capable of reaching a maximum altitude of 130 km and had a takeoff weight of 1000 kg, a diameter of 0.40 m and a length of 8.40 m
Launches
Daniel was launched three times between 1959 and 1961 by ONERA from Centre d'Essais et de Recherches d'Engins Speciaux - Ile de Levant.{{Cite web |last=Krebs |first=Gunter D. |date=2023 |title=Daniel (OPD-220-ADX) |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/daniel.htm |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Date !Mission !Apogee |
| 1959 January 27
|Atmosphere radioactivity |127 km (78 mi) |
| 1961 October 5
|Test / aeronomy mission |130 km (80 mi) |
| 1961 October 9
|Test / aeronomy mission |130 km (80 mi) |