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aeb<\/span>Launch of the VS-30 V13 in the state of Maranh\u00e3o: soaring to altitudes above 100 kilometers to collect dataaeb<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The sounding rocket VS-30 V13 was successfully launched from the Alc\u00e2ntara Launch Center in the state of Maranh\u00e3o on September 1, 2014. The launch took place at 11:02 PM, and it took three minutes and 34 seconds for the rocket to reach the security area designated for the operation. During its trajectory, data were collected to support studies of a GPS system to be used in space, designed by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), as well as a security device for space vehicles, developed at the Aeronautics and Space Institute (IAE). \u201cThe experiment team is analyzing the data,\u201d reported Colonel Avandelino Santana J\u00fanior, general coordinator of Operation Fox, initiated on August 12, 2014 and funded by the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB). VS-30 V13 is the first of four sub-orbital rockets \u2013 devices whose parabolic trajectory reaches upwards of 100 kilometers in altitude, providing a microgravity environment \u2013 scheduled for launch by the end of 2014 (see<\/em> Pesquisa FAPESP <\/i>Issue N\u00ba 222<\/em><\/a>). The vehicle’s performance was also assessed: for 90 seconds, its experiment module \u2013 the so-called payload \u2013 was propelled by an L5 engine fueled by liquid oxygen and ethanol. \u201cThe launch was an important milestone for the aerospace program because Brazil had not yet launched a liquid-propellant vehicle,\u201d said Santana. He emphasized that the main purpose of the operation was training and qualification for future launches involving liquid propellants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazilian suborbital rocket successfully launched","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[217,207,243],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-158696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-climate","tag-bioenergy","tag-innovation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=158696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}