Meteor (rocket)

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Meteor is a designation of a series of Polish sounding rockets. The Meteor rockets were built between 1963 and 1974.

The Meteor 1 and Meteor 2H were single-stage rockets. The Meteor 2K (the largest civilian rocket developed in Poland) was a two-stage rocket. The Meteor 3 was a two-stage rocket, compound from two Meteor 1 rockets.

	Meteor 1	Meteor 2H	Meteor 2K	Meteor 3
maximum altitude	40 km	68 km	90 km	65 km
takeoff thrust	14 kN	24 kN	52 kN	14 kN
diameter	12 cm	35 cm	35 cm	12 cm
length	2.5 m	4.5 m	4.3 m	4.3 m
The maximum altitude for Meteor 2K is 100 km in non-official flight

Meteor rockets were launched from Łeba and Ustka. 5 Meteor rockets were launched around 1970 from Zingst in former Eastern Germany. Programm was abandoned at USSR order, USSR wanted to keep monopoly on rocket industry.

[edit] Launch Log

An incomplete list of Meteor launches

Number	Date	Launch site	Maximum altitude (kilometres)	Rocket type	Remarks
1	1963	Leba	36	Meteor 1	Test flight
2	April 1965	Leba	36	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
3	June 15th, 1965	Leba	?	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
4	June 15th, 1965	Leba	?	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
5	June 16th, 1965	Leba	36	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
6	April 5th, 1967	Leba	36	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
7	April 5th, 1967	Leba	?	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
8	May 13th, 1967	Leba	36	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
9	1968	Leba	68	Meteor 2H	Test flight
10	1968?	Leba	68	Meteor 2H	Test flight
11	October 1968	Leba	65	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
12	1969?	Leba	68	Meteor 2H	Aeronomy mission
13	1969?	Leba	68	Meteor 2H	Aeronomy mission
14	1969?	Leba	68	Meteor 2H	Aeronomy mission
15	October 3rd, 1969	Leba	48	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
16	October 3rd, 1969	Leba	49	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
17	October 3rd, 1969	Leba	45	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
18	1970?	Leba	68	Meteor 2H	Test flight
19	July 10th, 1970	Leba	85	Meteor 2K	Aeronomy mission
20	July 10th, 1970	Leba	90	Meteor 2K	Test flight
21	August 22nd, 1970	Leba	57	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
22	September 2nd, 1970	Leba	63	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
23	September 7th, 1970	Leba	62	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
24	September 9th, 1970	Leba	61	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
25	October 7th, 1970	Leba	75	Meteor 2K	Aeronomy mission
26	October 7th, 1970	Leba	89	Meteor 2K	Aeronomy mission
27	June 11th, 1973	Leba	22	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
28	June 12th, 1973	Leba	23	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
29	June 14th, 1973	Leba	40	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
30	June 15th, 1973	Leba	22	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
31	June 15th, 1973	Leba	40	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
32	September 15th, 1973	Leba	36	Meteor 1	Aeronomy mission
33	September 16th, 1973	Leba	44	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
34	September 17th, 1973	Leba	45	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
35	September 18th, 1973	Leba	44	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission
36	June 6th, 1974	Leba	65	Meteor 3	Aeronomy mission