Deacon is the designation of an American
sounding rocket. The Deacon was launched 90 times from 1947 to 1957 from Wallops Island, and it also was the rocket portion of the first
rockoons, launched 1952 to 1956. The Deacon has a maximum flight height of 20 kilometers and a pay load ability of 17 kilograms. The takeoff
thrust
Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction, the accelerated mass will cause a force of equal magnitude but opposite direction to be applied to that sys ...
of the Deacon amounts to 27 kN, the takeoff
weight
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Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar qua ...
93 kg, the diameter 0.16 m and the length 3.28 m.
Triple Deacon
The Triple Deacon was a single stage member of the Deacon family that used three Deacon booster motors. Five launches from NASA's
Wallops Flight Facility occurred in 1953 - 1954.
See also
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References
Deacon-Rocket
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Sounding rockets of the United States