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Function
  
Sounding rocket

Height
  
9.50 m (31.10 ft)

Mass
  
6,800 kg (14,900 lb)

Country of origin
  
Brazil

Diameter
  
1.01 m (3.31 ft)

VS-40

Manufacturer
  
Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço

The VS-40 (Foguete Suborbital VS-40) is a Brazilian sounding rocket using solid fuel, stabilized aerodynamically, distributed between the first stage S40TM (4,200 kg) engine and the second stage S44M (810 kg) engine. This configuration corresponds to the upper stages of the VLS-1 rocket.

Contents

Flights

  • VS-40 PT-01 - "Operação Santa Maria" - 1993/04/02 - Qualifying flight for the S44 engine. 760 seconds in micro-gravity.
  • VS-40 PT-02 - "Operação Livramento" - 1998/03/21 - VAP-1 (Fokker) payload.
  • VS-40M / SHEFEX II - 2012/06/22 - SHEFEX (Sharp Edge Flight Experiment) II payload.
  • VS-40M / V03 - "Operação São Lourenço" - 2015/11/13 - SARA - Satélite de Reentrada Atmosférica (Atmospheric Reentry Satellite) Suborbital 1 - Failure (exploded on pad)
  • VS-40 - in development - SARA Suborbital 2

    • Characteristics

  • Length (mm) 6725
  • Payload Mass (kg) 500
  • Diameter (mm) 1000
  • Total takeoff mass (kg) 6,737
  • Mass of propellant (kg) 5,054
  • Structural mass (kg) 1,028
  • Apogee (km) 650
  • Microgravity time (s) 760

    • References

    VS-40 Wikipedia
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