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This film shows various launches of Astrobee sounding rockets. The location and date of the launches is unknown. Astrobee is the designation of series of American sounding rockets with 1 - 3 stages. Several versions were realized. The three-stage Astrobee 500 (first stage: Genius, second stage: Alcor, third stage: Asp) has a ceiling of 1000 km, a takeoff thrust of 161 kN, a takeoff weight of 900 kg, a diameter of m and a length of m. The three-stage Astrobee 1500 (first stage: Recruit, second stage: Aero jet, third stage: Alcor) has a ceiling of 1000 km, a takeoff thrust of 566 kN, a takeoff weight of 5200 kg, a diameter of m and a length of m. The two-stage Astrobee 200 (first stage: Genius, second stage: Alcor) has a ceiling of 350 km, a takeoff thrust of 161 kN, a takeoff weight of 800 kg, a diameter of m and a length of m. The single-stage Astrobee D has a ceiling of 140 km, a takeoff thrust of kN, a takeoff weight of 100 kg, a diameter of m and a length of m. The single-stage Astrobee F has a ceiling of 375 km, a takeoff thrust of kN, a takeoff weight of 1500 kg, a diameter of m and a length of m. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
