Fulmar (rocket)

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The Fulmar was a two-stage British sounding rocket.{{Cite web |last=Krebs |first=Gunter D. |title=Fulmar |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/fulmar.htm |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Gunter's Space Page}}{{Cite web |last=Wade |first=Mark |date=2019 |title=Fulmar |url=http://www.astronautix.com/f/fulmar.html |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Encyclopedia Astronautica}}{{Cite web |last=Serra |first=Jean-Jacques |title=Fulmar rockets |url=http://fuseurop.univ-perp.fr/fulma_e.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114060338/http://fuseurop.univ-perp.fr/fulma_e.htm |archive-date=2012-11-14 |website=Rockets in Europe}} It was related to the Spanish INTA-300.

The Fulmar, developed by Bristol Aerojet, consisted of a Heron starting stage with 107 kN thrust and a Snipe upper stage with 16.7 kN thrust. The Fulmar had a diameter of 26 centimetres and a length of 7.47 metres. It weighed 500 kilograms at launch and could reach a height of 250 kilometres.

Launches

The Fulmar was fired six times between 1976 and 1979 at Andøya in Norway; the last launch, on 19 March 1979, failed.

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!Date

!Site

!Vehicle

!Apogee (km)

!Mission

!Result

1976 November 21

|Andøya

|F2

|137

|auroral mission

|{{Success}}

1976 December 11

|Andøya

|F5

|214

|aurora / aeronomy / ionosphere mission

|{{Success}}

1977 October 16

|Andøya

|F3

|247

|"Wind / T" atmospheric mission

|{{Success}}

1977 November 17

|Andøya

|F1

|261

|"Electrons / Ions" ionosphere mission

|{{Success}}

1977 December 5

|Andøya

|F4

|255

|"HLC 2B" auroral mission

|{{Success}}

1979 March 19

|Andøya

|F6

|15

|aeronomy mission

|{{Failure}}

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