Ascent 4 soars to 2,000 feet altitude record! - AA Institute of Space Science & Technology

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			Ascent 4 goes where no other AAI rocket has yet been! Article posted: August 10, 2004 Copyright © 2004 Abdul Ahad. All rights reserved. Late afternoon of Sunday August 1st 2004, several eye witnesses in the Warden Hill area of Luton saw a tiny, un-payloaded, un-parachuted fully expendable craft streaking fiercely upwards into a clear blue sky at near-sonic speeds... Is it a bird...!? Is it a plane...!? No, upon successful recovery of its lower stage several minutes after the initial skyward boost, the object turned out to be a small rocket designated as 'AA-Ascent-4' launched by the AA Institute as part of its continuing test initiative dubbed the 'Rocketry & Aerospace Program'! *Artwork showing the small blue and white "Sizzler" rocket streaking toward its target altitude of 2,000 feet above the "Northern Rocket Range" launch site. [Image: AAI]* The mission was launched using a C-6-5 rated solid fuel motor, using a backup wired ignition system (after an unsuccessful attempt at testing the prototype 'remote launch ignition facility'). Based on the rocket manufacturer's projections, Ascent 4 set a new altitude record of 2,000 feet - a highly aspired flight milestone ever since Ascent 3 achieved 1,000 feet ground altitude exactly one year earlier. *The "Rocketry & Aerospace" program is an aspirational initiative of the AA Institute of Space Science & Technology* Rocketry & Aerospace Division Home Page Copyright © 2004 Abdul Ahad. All rights reserved.

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