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SPARTA (Chrysler)

SPARTA

Photo Credit: US Army

  • Length: 21.8 m
  • Diameter: 1.78 m
  • Launch Mass: 30 T
  • LEO Capacity: 45 kg

The SPARTA, manufactured by Chrysler established in 1950, undertook its inaugural launch on 11/28/1966, is non-reusable and is inactive.

SPARTA has 1 successful launches and 0 failed attempts, with a cumulative tally of 1 launches, currently with 0 pending launches in the pipeline.

The Sparta was a three-stage rocket that launched Australia's first Earth satellite, WRESAT, on 29 November 1967.

Manufacturer

Chrysler (CHR)

In July 1959, NASA chose the Redstone missile as the basis for the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle to be used for suborbital test flights of the Project Mercury spacecraft. Three unmanned MRLV launch attempts were made between November 1960 and March 1961, two of which were successful. The MRLV successfully launched the chimpanzee Ham, and astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom on three suborbital flights in January, May and July 1961, respectively.

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