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Black Brant Sounding Rockets
Black Brant is a solid propellant rocket system in single and multistage configurations that can carry payloads of 70-850kg to altitudes from 150km to more than 1500km.
It provides up to 20 minutes of useful time for micro-gravity experiments, auroral studies, deep space observations, and other extraterrestrial research.
Black Brants are launched from conventional boom rails or 3 to 4 fin towers.
Bristol's Space Systems Group can provide a comprehensive range of vehicle/payload design and fabrication through full launch support worldwide.
Since 1962, more than 1,000 Black Brants have been launched, with a vehicle success rate of 98%.
Vehicles are in continuous production at Bristol for ready availability to experimenters. High rates of production help keep the Black Brant more cost-effective than any other sounding rocket of comparable performance.
Whether studying the upper atmosphere or conducting micro-gravity research, the Black Brant is the most reliable, cost-effective, and available sounding rocket to carry experiments to the fringes of space.
The Black Brant Family of Rockets
Support Services/Facilities
Bristol's Space Systems Group, staffed by many of Canada's foremost experts in high altitude research rocketry, offers turnkey services and support to experimenters:
- mission feasibility and definition
- payload/hardware design and fabrication
- experiment integration
- environmental testing
- mission analysis
- launch services and range crew support
- project management
- Launch of the first Black Brant 12 from Wallops Island, Virginia, in 1988.
- Static firing of Black Brant motor at Rockwood, Bristol's solid propellant plant. Since 1963, when the plant opened, it has produced over 700,000 rocket motors for a variety of applications.
- Launch of a BB 9 from 4-fin tower at White Sands, New Mexico. The payload carried micro-gravity experiments in support of the Canadian Space Agency's materials research program.
- Environmental testing ensures that "what goes up does not break down".
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