Malemute

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Malemute is the designation of an American sounding rocket family.{{Cite web |title=Malemute |url=http://www.astronautix.com/m/malemute.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=www.astronautix.com}} The original Malemute had a maximum flight altitude of 165 km, a liftoff thrust of 57.00 kN, a total mass of 100 kg, a diameter of 0.41 m and a total length of 2.40 m. It was a single stage vehicle powered by a Thiokol Malemute TU-758 engine, operated by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL).

It was used for used for conducting upper atmosphere research in various missions to study phenomena such as auroras, ionosphere and cosmic radiation. Over the years more advanced versions were developed.{{Cite web |title=Malemute |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/malemute.htm |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Imp. Malemute |url=http://www.astronautix.com/i/impmalemute.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=www.astronautix.com}}{{Cite web |last=Koehler |first=Keith |last2=NASA |title=NASA completes investigation of July 2014 Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket failure |url=https://phys.org/news/2015-01-nasa-july-terrier-improved-malemute-rocket.html |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=phys.org |language=en}}