The Stasiun Peluncuran Roket (literally “rocket launch station” in Indonesian) or “basic launch LAPAN” is a basic launch of sounding rockets of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN ). It is located near Pameungpeuk  (in) in the province of West Java in Indonesia and was mainly used to start with Type RX-250-LPN  (in) .

 

History

The site, whose construction began in 1963, is the result of cooperation between Indonesia and Japan. Designed by Hideo Itokawa it is initially designed to study the upper atmosphere with Japanese sounding rockets Kappa-8 a , 1 . The first launch took place on 7 August 1965. It is followed by two more shots in the space of ten days 2 .

Thereafter the site is mainly used for the launching of eight sounding Indonesian design RX-250-LPN  (en) (between 1987 and 2007): rockets 5.30 m high altitudes up to 70 km in average, 100 km maximum 3 . The first two shots are launcher launcher missions, the next two are aeronautical missions (as for the Kappa rocket) and two are for the ionosphere study . It should be noted that these four shots took place over two days b . Finally the last two were test missions 3 .

The site share subsequently served launches in 2008 and 2009, three more rockets rocket family RX  (in) : two RX-320 rockets and 420 rocket RX- 4 .

List of rocket launches

Between 1965 and 2009, a total of fourteen shots were fired from site 4 .

Dated Rocket type Type of Mission Apogee Notes
August 7, 1965  Kappa-8 Aeronomy 191 km
August 11, 1965  Kappa-8 Aeronomy, Ionosphere 100 km
August 17, 1965  Kappa-8 Aeronomy 70 km
1987  RX-250-LPN Test 70 km
1985  RX-250-LPN Test 70 km
September 29, 2004  RX-250-LPN Aeronomy 70 km
September 29, 2004  RX-250-LPN Aeronomy 70 km
September 29, 2004  RX-250-LPN Ionosphere 100 km
September 30, 2004  RX-250-LPN Ionosphere 100 km
1 st July 2005  RX-250-LPN Test 70 km
June 19, 2007  RX-250-LPN 50 km
May 18, 2008  RX-320 Aeronomy 42 km
July 2, 2008  RX-320 Trial 5 40 km
July 2, 2009  RX-420 Trial 6 53 km First shot of an Indonesian rocket with 3 stages 7 .

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Rockets designed by Tokyo University team led by the same Hideo Itokawa.
  2. ↑ In 25 hours and 10 minutes: September 29, 2004 at 7:50 to September 30, 2004 at 9:00 am (local time, ie UTC + 07: 00 ).

References

  1. ↑ ( in ) Patrick Collins , ” The Newsletter of the SPS 2000 Community Around the World ”  [ archive ] , on http://www.spacefuture.com/  [ archive ] , (accessed December 16, 2016 )
  2. ↑ ( in ) Mark Wade , ” Kappa 8 ”  [ archive ] , on astronautix.com (accessed 16 December 2016 )
  3. ↑ a and b ( in ) Mark Wade , ” RX-250-LPN ”  [ archive ] , on astronautix.com (accessed 16 December 2016 )
  4. ↑ a and b ( in ) Mark Wade , ” Pameungpeuk ”  [ archive ] , on astronautix.com (accessed 16 December 2016 )
  5. ↑ ( in ) National Institute of Aeronautics and Space , ” Roket Pengorbit Satelite (RPS-01) ”  [ archive ] (accessed 16 December 2016 )
  6. ↑ ( in ) Anita Rachman , ” Space Agency Launches RX-420 Rocket ”  [ archive ] , on jakartaglobe.id , (accessed December 16, 2016 )
  7. ↑ ( in ) James Clay Moltz , Asia’s Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks , Columbia University Press , ( ISBN  978-0-231-15688-2 , read online  [ archive ] ) , p.  167