Family: Sounding Rockets. Country: USA. Status: Hardware. Other Designations: Atmospheric Sounding Projectile.
Sounding rocket, capable of payloads up to 35 kg.
Specifications
Asp Chronology
1955 Dec 27 -
Asp first flight.
First prototype of Asp (atmospheric sounding projectile) sounding rocket, capable of payloads up to 80 pounds, launched successfully at NAMTC at Point Mugu, Calif.
Bibliography:
17 - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html