Sonda (rocket)

Sonda rockets family portrait

Side-by-side comparison of Sonda rockets, to scale

Sonda is a family of Brazilian-built sounding rockets which serves as an R&D path to the VLS (Portuguese: Veículo Lançador de Satélites) orbital rocket.

Sonda 1

The Sonda 1 is a two stage rocket (1 x S10-1 + 1 x S-10-2 rocket stages) with a maximum flight altitude of 65 km, a liftoff thrust of 27 kN a total mass of 100 kg, a diameter of 11 cm and a length of 4.5 metres. It was launched 9 times between 1965 and 1966.

Diagram with Sonda I rocket dimensions.

Sonda II-02

The Sonda 2 is a single stage rocket (1 x S-20 rocket stage) with a maximum flight altitude of 180 km, a Liftoff Thrust of 36.00 kN, a total mass of 400 kg, a core Diameter of 0.30 m and a total Length of 5.60 m. It was launched 7 times between 1990 and 1996.

Diagram with Sonda II rocket dimensions.

Sonda III-03

Sonda 3 is a two stage rocket available in two versions, the Sonda 3 (1 x S30 + 1 x S-20 rocket stages) and the Sonda 3M1 (1 x S30 + 1 x S-23 rocket stages). Both rockets have a maximum flight altitude of 600 km, a liftoff Thrust of 102.00 kN, a diameter of 0.30 m and a length of 8.00 m. However Sonda 3 weighs 1500 kg while Sonda 3 M1 weighs 1400 kg at launch. It was launched 27 times between 1976 and 2002.

Diagram with Sonda III rocket dimensions.

Sonda III rocket shapes.

Sonda IV-03

Sonda 4 is a two stage rocket (1 x S30 + 1 x S-43 rocket stages) with a maximum flight altitude of 800 km, a liftoff Thrust of 203.00 kN, a total Mass of 7200 kg, a diameter of 1.01 m and a length of 11.00 m. It was launched 7 times between 1984 and 1990.

Diagram with Sonda IV rocket dimensions.

Satellites

Active	SCD CBERS

In development	Amazônia SGDC Flora Hiperspectral SABIA-Mar SARA LATTES GEOMET CLE SAR AST

Sounding
rockets

Launch
vehicles

In development	VLM

Canceled	VLS-1 (Cruzeiro do Sul" launcher family) Tsyklon-4 (collaboration with Ukraine)

Launch sites

Organisation

Non-military suborbital rocket engines and motors that have flown

Liquid fuel engines	BE-3 Ofen-B WAC Corporal XLR10 XLR99

Hybrid Propellant Engines	RocketMotorOne RocketMotorTwo

Solid Propellant Motors	1.5KS35000 Algol X-254 Altair Aerobee Alcor Asp Black Brant Castor Genius Improved Orion Malemute Orion Oriole Rohini S-20 S-30 S-31 S40TM S44M S-310 S-520 Talos Terrier

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