meteorological rocket

Including meteorological rockets as their modifications.

They used the meteorological rockets and created an instrument payload for the Loki in place of the chaff dispenser.

On June 8, 1958, the first attempted launches of Ernst Mohr's large meteorological rockets were made.

The launch vehicles vary in size and power from the small Super Loki meteorological rockets to orbital-class vehicles.

The rocket launchings were to be part of the Meteorological Rocket Network and the main goal of the project was to gather inland weather data.

A rocketsonde, a kind of sounding rocket, is a system for atmospheric observations that consists of a rocket that launches instruments that can make weather observations up to an altitude of 75,000 m. Common meteorological rockets (rocketsondes) are the Loki and Super Loki.