Editing Boosted Arcas

{{Short description|American sounding rocket}}
[[File:Boosted Arcas sounding rocket shape.jpg|thumb|Boosted Arcas sounding rocket]]
'''Boosted Arcas''' is the designation of an American [[sounding rocket]], in which an [[Arcas (rocket)|Arcas]] rocket<ref name= "Parsch-PWN-6">Andreas Parsch, [http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/n-6.html  "PWN-6"], Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles. Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref> was boosted using a first stage to improve the altitude and payload.

Variants of the Boosted Arcas were Boosted Arcas, Sparrow Arcas, Sidewinder Arcas, and Boosted Arcas II.<ref name= Bollerman-1970>Bruce Bollerman, [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700020646.pdf ''A Study of 30 km to 200 Km Meteorological Rocket sounding systems,'' Volume 1],  Chapter 6.3.6, "Boosted Arcas,"' NASA Report CR-1529, May 1970, page 311-320. Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref>

*The Boosted Arcas consists of a first [[Multistage rocket|stage]] of an [[ARCO|Atlantic Richfield]] booster<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/b/boostedarcas.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228002821/http://astronautix.com/b/boostedarcas.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 28, 2016 |title=Boosted Arcas |publisher=[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]] |accessdate=2018-03-22 }}</ref> using a 0.8-KS-2700 solid propellant engine.<ref name= Bollerman-1970 />
*The Sparrow-Arcas<ref name= Bollerman-1970 /> (or "Sparrow-HV Arcas"<ref name= "Parsch-PWN-6" />) booster was based on the liquid-propellant [[AIM-7 Sparrow|AIM-7D Sparrow]] missile as a first stage.
*The Sidewinder-Arcas<ref name= Bollerman-1970 /> (or "Sidewinder-HV Arcas"<ref name= "Parsch-PWN-6" />) used the solid-propellant [[AIM-9 Sidewinder|AIM-9B Sidewinder]] missile as a first-stage.
*The Boosted Arcas 2 used a MARC 42A1 booster.<ref name= Bollerman-1970 /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/b/boostedarcas2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227211508/http://astronautix.com/b/boostedarcas2.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 27, 2016 |title=Boosted Arcas 2 |publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica |accessdate=2018-03-22 }}</ref>

The maximum altitude of the Boosted Arcas amounts to 50&nbsp;km, the takeoff thrust 1.00&nbsp;kN, the diameter 0.11 m and the length 3.40 m. The Boosted Arcas was launched 78 times between 1963 and 1972.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Sounding rockets of the United States]]


{{rocket-stub}}