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.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was launched from Wallops Island, Point Mugu, Tonopah HAD4, Johnston Island and Barking Sands.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":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.<ref name=":1" />

The TE-416 Tomahawk has a thrust of Template:Convert and a burn time of 9.5 seconds.<ref name=":0" /> The diameter of the TE-416 Tomahawk is Template:Convert and the fin span is Template: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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

• Tomahawk - DesignationsSystems.net

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