The Barreira do Inferno Launch Center (, ) is a rocket launch base of the

Brazilian Space Agency The Brazilian Space Agency (; AEB) is the civilian authority in Brazil responsible for the country's Space exploration, space program. It operates a spaceport at Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara, Alcântara, and a rocket launch site at Centro ...

. It was created in 1965, and is located near

Ponta Negra Ponta Negra (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Black Tip'') is a beach and neighborhood located in the Brazilian city of Natal, Brazil, Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Located in the extreme south of the beach is the Mo ...

beach, near

Natal NATAL or Natal may refer to: Places * Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, a city in Brazil * Natal, South Africa (disambiguation), a region in South Africa ** Natalia Republic, a former country (1839–1843) ** Colony of Natal, a former British colony ( ...

, the capital of the state of

Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Norte (, , ) is one of the states of Brazil. It is located in the northeastern region of the country, forming the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent. The name literally translates as "Great Northern River", refe ...

. It has been used for 233 launches from 1965 to 2007, reaching up to 1100 kilometers in altitude. It provides

tracking Tracking may refer to: Science and technology Computing * Tracking, in computer graphics, in match moving (insertion of graphics into footage) * Tracking, composing music with music tracker software * Eye tracking, measuring the position of ...

support for launches from the

Alcântara Launch Center Alcantara, Alcântara ( Portuguese), Alcántara (Spanish), Alcàntara, Alcàntera, El-Qantarah and (El) Kantara are all transliterations of the Arabic word ''al-qantara'' (القنطرة), meaning "the bridge". Alcantara may refer to: People * ...

and

Guiana Space Centre The Guiana Space Centre (; CSG), also called Europe's Spaceport, is a spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas region of France in South America. Kourou is located approxim ...

Launches

The following rockets have been launched from CLBI: * Loki-Dart *

Nike-Cajun The Nike-Cajun was a two-stage sounding rocket built by combining a Nike base stage with a Cajun upper stage. The Nike-Cajun was known as a CAN for Cajun And Nike. The Cajun was developed from the Deacon rocket. It retained the external size, ...

* Orion *

Nike-Apache The Nike Apache, also known as Argo B-13, was a two-stage sounding rocket developed by Aerolab, later Atlantic Research, for use by the United States Air Force and NASA. It became the standard NASA sounding rocket and was launched over 600 time ...

* Aerobee 150 *

Javelin A javelin is a light spear designed primarily to be thrown, historically as a ranged weapon. Today, the javelin is predominantly used for sporting purposes such as the javelin throw. The javelin is nearly always thrown by hand, unlike the sling ...

* Nike-Tomahawk * Black Brant 4A *

Nike-Iroquois Nike Iroquois is the designation of a two-stage American sounding rocket. The Nike Iroquois was launched 213 times between 1964 and 1978. The maximum flight height of the Nike Iroquois amounts to 290 km (950,000 ft), the takeoff thrust ...

Boosted Dart Boosted Dart is a United States single stage sounding rocket of the Loki family. Between 1966 and 1968, 39 of these rockets were launched by NASA. The Boosted Dart has a length of 3.30 meters, a diameter of 0.1 meters and a maximum flight altit ...

* Super Arcas *

Rocketsonde A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The rockets are often ...

* Black Brant 5C * Black Brant 4B *Paiute Tomahawk *PESL *Castor Lance * Black Brant 8B *

Sonda 3 Sonda ("Probe" in English) is a family of Brazilian-built sounding rockets which serves as an R&D path to the VLS () orbital rocket. Launches started in 1965 and continue to this day. Launch sites include Wallops Island, Andoya, Kiruna, Nat ...

* Skylark 12 *Cuckoo 4 *

Nike Orion The Nike stage or Nike booster, a solid fuel rocket motor, was developed by Hercules Aerospace for use as the first stage of the Nike Ajax (M5 motor) and Nike Hercules (M5E1 and M88 motor) missiles as part of Project Nike. It was subsequentl ...

Sonda 4 Sonda ("Probe" in English) is a family of Brazilian-built sounding rockets which serves as an Research and development, R&D path to the VLS-1, VLS () Orbital spaceflight, orbital rocket. Launches started in 1965 and continue to this day. Launch ...

* VLS-R1 *

VS-30 The VS-30 is a Brazilian sounding rocket, developed by the ''Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço'' and derived from the Sonda 3 sounding rocket first stage.

Gallery

Black Brant rocket The Black Brant is a family of Canadian-designed sounding rockets originally built by Bristol Aerospace, since absorbed by Magellan Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Over 800 Black Brants of various versions have been launched since they were fir ...

in 1973 from Barreira do Inferno

References

External links

Official site
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