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METEOROLOGICAL ROCKET [6 records]

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Record 1 2010-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
DEF

An inflatable sphere released at apogee from a sounding rocket.

CONT

robin sphere. ... The sphere is inflated by evaporation of a contained liquid on release. A corner reflector is ejected as the sphere inflates, permitting track during descent by a precision radar.

CONT

The PWN-12A is another sounding rocket using ... a dart with a ROBIN (Rocket Balloon Instrument) Inflatable Falling Sphere payload. At an apogee of about 115 km (70 miles), the dart releases a ... metalized mylar balloon ... While it is slowly descending back to earth, the balloon is tracked by a high-precision radar ... on the ground. Minimum tracking altitude is about 30 km (18 miles), where the ambient pressure will cause the balloon to collapse. Using the balloon’s known mass and volume, the radar track can be used to calculate atmospheric data like wind speed/direction and air density.

CONT

The other type of meteorological payload that can be used on a meteorological rocket consists of a falling ROBIN sphere that is used when probing the atmosphere to over 100 km altitude. These altitudes are above the normal operating levels for the thermistors aboard the rocketsonde.... This ROBIN sphere is a spherical shaped balloon constructed of a thin(0. 0001 mm thick) radar-reflective mylar material that is inflated with a small charge of inert gas to a known mass and volume. The dart containing the sphere typically reaches an altitude of 115 km where the sphere is deployed and inflated. When the sphere is inflated to super-pressure of approximately 10-12 mb, the sphere will reach a 1 meter(3. 3. ft) diameter. When the balloon descends to an altitude of approximately 30 km, the air pressure outside the sphere will become greater than that inside, causing the sphere to collapse.

Key term(s)
  • rocket-balloon instrument
  • falling sphere

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
OBS

catasphère : Dispositif gonflé après avoir été éjecté d'une fusée à haute altitude; ses mouvements sont suivis au cours de sa chute pour obtenir des mesures de la densité de l'air et des vents en altitude.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
OBS

esfera en caída libre: Dispositivo que se infla después de ser expulsado de un cohete en la atmósfera superior, obteniéndose medidas de la densidad y de los vientos en las capas superiores al seguir sus movimientos durante su caída libre hacia la Tierra.

Key term(s)
  • esfera en caída libre
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Record 2 2010-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Spacecraft
DEF

A rocket designed primarily for routine upper-air observation (as opposed to research) in the lower 250,000 ft of the atmosphere, especially that portion inaccessible to balloons, i.e., above 100,000 ft.

DEF

Rocket carrying meteorological instruments...

OBS

rocketsonde and meteorological rocket have a relationship of part and whole.

OBS

meteorological rocket : term standardized by ISO.

OBS

ISO-5843-6, 1985, p. 8. entrée distincte de meteorological rocket : rocketsonde : fusée-sonde; fusée météorologique.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Engins spatiaux
CONT

En 1959, le Meteorological Office reçut l'autorisation de créer une High Altitude Research Unit avec mission d'effectuer des études de l'atmosphère jusqu'à 80 km d'altitude. La petite fusée météorologique à poudre Skua fut créée [...] Il s'agissait d'une fusée de 2,24 m de long pour 12,7 cm de diamètre pesant 36,7 kg (57,6 kg avec le booster), lancée à partir d'un simple tube de 5 m de long. Le booster Chick brûlait pendant 0.2 sec et se séparait vers 20 m d'altitude pour être récupérée par parachute. Le second étage Bantam brûlait une trentaine de secondes et pouvait atteindre environ 70 km d'altitude avec 5 kg de charge utile (un parachute permettant les mesures relatives au vent et une sonde pour les mesures de température).

OBS

fusée météorologique : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Spacecraft
DEF

A rocket vehicle designed or adapted for high-altitude research.

OBS

sounding rocket: term standardized by ISO.

PHR

Atmospheric, meteorological rocket probe.

Key term(s)
  • rocket sonde
  • rocket-sonde

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Engins spatiaux
DEF

Fusée suborbitale non habitée, équipée d'appareils de mesure ou de recherche.

OBS

Pluriel : fusées-sondes.

OBS

fusée-sonde : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

PHR

Fusée-sonde météorologique, suborbitale.

Key term(s)
  • fusée sonde

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorology
DEF

Determination of one or several upper-air meteorological elements by means of instruments carried aloft by balloon, aircraft, kite, glider, rocket, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Météorologie
DEF

Détermination d'un ou de plusieurs éléments météorologiques en altitude au moyen d'instruments emportés par ballon, aéronef, cerf-volant, planeur, fusée, etc.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Meteorología
DEF

Determinación de uno o más elementos meteorológicos en altitud por medio de un instrumento que asciende transportado por un globo, una aeronave, una cometa, un planeador, un cohete, etc.

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Record 5 2004-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

An instrument package carried aloft by a meteorological rocket to make a measure one or more weather elements in a sounding of the upper atmosphere, at altitudes usually higher than can be obtained by radiosonde or aircraft.

Key term(s)
  • rocket-sonde

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Télédétection
DEF

Instrument de sondage emporté en altitude par une fusée.

OBS

Selon le dictionnaire «Protection de la couche d'ozone» [S-53-21], une fusée-sonde est aussi «le véhicule de la sonde (sounding rocket, en anglais)».

Key term(s)
  • fusée sonde

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
  • Teledetección
DEF

Instrumento de sondeo transportado a las capas superiores de la atmósfera por un cohete.

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Record 6 2002-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
DEF

Measurement of one or more upper-air meteorological elements by means of rocket-borne instruments.

CONT

Most meteorological rocket observations, also known as rocket soundings, are made from a rocketsonde probe that typically contains a temperature sensor. Other thermodynamic variables such as air pressure and density can be computed from the collected temperature data using appropriate thermodynamic equations or measured by use of special on-board pressure and density gauges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
DEF

Mesure d'un ou plusieurs éléments météorologiques en altitude au moyen d'instruments emportés par une fusée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
DEF

Determinación de uno o más elementos meteorológicos por medio de instrumentos transportados por un cohete.

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