German WWII Space Satellite ?!

[Archibald]

Not satellites, but rather sounding rockets. By the way, the four major powers after WWII all fired V-2s with science payloads. USSR fired dozens of V-2s, R-1s, R-2s and R-5s missiles turned sounding rockets. Same for the USA and France, with Veronique being a derivate of V-2.

 

[publiusr]

I thought a modified V-2 did thump a satellite up there—Explorer 1, courtesy of the ABMA after the Navy Flopnik.

Bumper WAC couldn’t even launch a cubesat…

 

[Byeman]

I thought a modified V-2 did thump a satellite up there—Explorer 1, courtesy of the ABMA after the Navy Flopnik.

Redstone was not a "modified" V-2

 

[Orionblamblam]

Redstone was not a "modified" V-2

It is, in the same way a TU-95 "Bear" is a modified Boeing B-29. You just gotta have a lenient definition of "modified."

 

[publiusr]

I wonder if that Satanist Parsons came up with the solid fuel recipe used in that spinning drum—I thought I saw glyphs :0

 

[Byeman]

I wonder if that Satanist Parsons came up with the solid fuel recipe used in that spinning drum—I thought I saw glyphs :0

no.
A. He wasn't a Satanist
b. He was long dead before development of the Sergeant missile was started.
c. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bartley

 

[Michel Van]

Redstone was not a "modified" V-2

The Redstone use the technology of Aggregat 4, but was improved Version by Von Braun and his team
Launch mass went 12 tons to 28 tons and engine thrust from 270 kN to 347 kN.
Also modernised flight electronics, compare to its 1940s ancestor the Aggregat 4...

Ironic in this topic is that Redstone as Jupiter-C (two Stages) Juno launch USA first satellite.

 

[publiusr]

Not a true Jupiter body-wise.

 

[Byeman]

Not a true Jupiter body-wise.

ABMA used the names Jupiter-A and Jupiter-C to lie to the Missile Test Center so that these Redstone flights get Jupiter priority.

 

[Byeman]

Ironic in this topic is that Redstone as Jupiter-C (two Stages) launch USA first satellite

It called Juno I and it was four stages.

 

[Ivan Culjak]

"You can called it "precursor" of artificial satellite which operated in orbit today. But for me personally, Ragener Tonne was a precursor of remote sensing systems which was carried by a satellite today."

I think, we should value more this achievement, it marks a transition from war to science, great!

 

[Byeman]

"You can called it "precursor" of artificial satellite which operated in orbit today. But for me personally, Ragener Tonne was a precursor of remote sensing systems which was carried by a satellite today."

I think, we should value more this achievement, it marks a transition from war to science, great!

Not really. High altitude research balloons were predecessors

 

[Ivan Culjak]

Not really. High altitude research balloons were predecessors

Ah, we are talking about space exploration and rockets here, I thought it is common sense..high altitudes balloons are from a very different world ..did they ever reach the border of the space and were powered ...
How did you get to include balloons here......It could be worse , we could go back to the to old China, they were first to launch balloons...

 

[Byeman]

Ah, we are talking about space exploration and rockets here, I thought it is common sense..high altitudes balloons are from a very different world ..did

No, the "common sense" is that the "precursors" were the instruments first used in balloons and it was in work before the war.

 

[martinbayer]

Hi, interesting fact: The first photo from space was taken from a V-2 launched by US scientists on 24 October 1946! So teorettically V-2 (modified) can reach space and bring sattelite on orbit

This picture was taken at the apex of a ballistic arc and NOT IN ORBIT, which the V-2 was nowhere near capable of reaching.