Kartika I is an Indonesian

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built by

LAPAN National Institute of Aeronautics and Space ( id, Lembaga Penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional, LAPAN) was the Indonesian government space agency. It was established on November 27, 1963, by former Indonesian president Sukarno after one year's ...

, AURI,

Bandung Institute of Technology The Bandung Institute of Technology ( id, Institut Teknologi Bandung, abbreviated as ITB) is a national research university located in Bandung, Indonesia. Since its establishment in 1920, ITB has been consistently recognized as Indonesia's premie ...

, and

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under PRIMA (Sounding and Military Rocket Development Project/''Indonesian: Proyek Pengembangan Roket Ilmiah dan Militer Awal'') project. This rocket was launched on August 14, 1964, in LAPAN Rocket Launching Station Pameungpeuk,

West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

, becoming the first sounding rocket ever launched in Indonesia, and the second in Asia after Japan through Kappa Rocket.

History

On May 31, 1962,

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under

Sukarno Sukarno). (; born Koesno Sosrodihardjo, ; 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967. Sukarno was the leader of ...

commenced aeronautics exploration when the Aeronautics Committee was established by the Indonesian Vice Prime Minister I,

Juanda Raden Djuanda Kartawidjaja ( EYD: Raden Juanda Kartawijaya; 14 January 1911 – 7 November 1963), commonly known as Djuanda Kartawidjaja, usually referred to simply as Djuanda, was an Indonesian politician and ethnic Sundanese noble from the cour ...

, who was also the head of Indonesian Aeronautics. The secretary of Indonesian Aeronautics, RJ Salatun, was also involved in the establishment. On September 22, 1962, the PRIMA project was formed as an affiliation of AURI (

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) and ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology). The outcome of the project was the launching of "Kartika"("star") series rockets and it's telemetric ordnances on August 14, 1964, in LAPAN Launching Station Pameungpeuk, West Java. PRIMA project as one of the subproject of Outer Space Ionosphere Rocket Project (''Proyek Roket Ionosfer Angkasa Luar'') that is known as "Project S" was led by Laksda (

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) Udara Budiardjo and Kolonel (

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) Udara RJ Salatun.

Version

Kartika rocket series only has one version, Kartika I. ;Kartika I *

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: 5 kg *Maximum flight height: 60 km *Launch mass: 220 kg *Length: 10.5 m

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*{{cite web, url=http://www.lapan.go.id/, title=LAPAN, publisher=lapan.go.id, accessdate=2014-01-25 Sounding rockets of Indonesia

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