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Old 06-02-2022, 03:36 PM
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KAPPA Sounding Rocket Data . . .

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KAPPA data . . . additional.

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KAPPA Sounding Rocket Data . . .

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Thank you very much Ez2cDave.

A lot of information here:

https://books.google.fr/books?id=HW...gram%22&f=false
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Thank you very much Ez2cDave.

A lot of information here:

https://books.google.fr/books?id=HW...gram%22&f=false


Yes . . . After a quick "French lesson" ( LOL ! ) , here is the link to download the PDF file ( in English ) for "SURVEY OF JAPANESE SPACE PROGRAM WITH EMPHASIS ON KAPPA AND
LAMBDA TYPE OBSERVATION ROCKETS"

https://books.googleusercontent.com...lrdG9i76tisjB8I


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Thank you for posting these! (If anyone ever compiled a booklet of "simple, easy, yet attractive scale model rocket subjects," the Kappa series would deserve to be in it.) I recall reading in a 1960s edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft that Czechoslovakia's space research organization purchased a number of Kappa sounding rockets (Kappa 6's, if memory serves) from Professor Hideo Itokawa's University of Tokyo organization, which became known as ISAS, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (see: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/about/h...id%20propellant. ). That's him standing next to the Kappa rocket, in the indoor photograph. Also (an interesting bit of space agency trivia):

For many years, Japan had two space agencies, and a large space technology laboratory (the NAL, the National Aerospace Laboratory). The other space agency--which was directed toward developing applications (weather, communications, etc.) satellites, manned space flight vehicles such as their ISS module and ISS resupply freighter spacecraft, and launch vehicles for them--was NASDA, the National Space Development Agency. ISAS, at the University of Tokyo, was Japan's scientific space agency, which developed and flew its own sounding rockets and their payloads, sounding rocket-derived satellite launch vehicles (the Lambda and Mu series; Lambda began as a large sounding rocket), and scientific satellites. They also flew Project Skyhook-type, instrumented polyethylene plastic film stratospheric balloons. Now:

In 2003, all three--ISAS, NASDA, and NAL--were merged to become JAXA, the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (see: https://global.jaxa.jp/ ). But ISAS appears to still exist--at least unofficially--perhaps as an organization, or a division, within JAXA. Whenever I look up information on Japanese sounding rockets, sounding balloons, and scientific satellites, almost invariably the website or webpage URL begins with the term "isas" (it would be like looking up NASA aeronautical project websites, and seeing the URLs beginning with "naca" [for the pre-NASA--1915 to 1958--National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] instead of "nasa").
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Thank you for posting these! (If anyone ever compiled a booklet of "simple, easy, yet attractive scale model rocket subjects," the Kappa series would deserve to be in it.) I recall reading in a 1960s edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft that Czechoslovakia's space research organization purchased a number of Kappa sounding rockets (Kappa 6's, if memory serves) from Professor Hideo Itokawa's University of Tokyo organization, which became known as ISAS, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (see: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/about/h...id%20propellant. ).


Yugoslavia bought Kappa 6 rockets (launched in 1964). Indonesia bought the more powerful Kappa 8 rockets (launched in 1965). It’s possible there were more launches afterwards.
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Yugoslavia bought Kappa 6 rockets (launched in 1964). Indonesia bought the more powerful Kappa 8 rockets (launched in 1965). It’s possible there were more launches afterwards.



Excellent . . . Please post whatever info you find !

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Here is an excerpt from Indonesia’s report to COSPAR in 1969
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Yugoslavia bought Kappa 6 rockets (launched in 1964). Indonesia bought the more powerful Kappa 8 rockets (launched in 1965). It’s possible there were more launches afterwards.
Well, at least I was in the right area of Europe... :-) An advantage of this, for scale modelers, is that the Yugoslavian-bought Kappa 6 rockets (and the Indonesian-bought Kappa 8's) probably had different (from ISAS's) decor schemes, providing additional rounds of both rockets to create scale models of.
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