TE-416 Tomahawk

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A Nike Tomahawk photographed at Wallops Flight Facility.

The TE-416 Tomahawk is a sounding rocket developed by the American company Thiokol at the beginning of the 1960s for Sandia National Laboratories.[1] It was launched from Wallops Island, Point Mugu, Tonopah HAD4, Johnston Island and Barking Sands.[2][1]

Initial flights were in the scope of the 1963 International Quiet Sun Year. In 1968 NASA used a version called D-Region Tomahawk for a single flight out of Wallops Island.[1]

The TE-416 Tomahawk has a thrust of Script error: No such module "convert". and a burn time of 9.5 seconds.[2] The diameter of the TE-416 Tomahawk is Script error: No such module "convert". and the fin span is Script error: No such module "convert"..

Although the TE-416 Tomahawk can be launched alone, it was started predominantly as upper stage in connection with other rockets, for example with a Nike rocket as first stage (Nike Tomahawk).[3]

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