The MMR06 is a Russia

Russia

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Rocket

A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engine. In all rockets, the exhaust is formed entirely from propellants carried within the rocket before use. Rocket engines work by action and reaction...

 for meteorological experiments, with a length of 3.48 metres and a total weight of 130 kg. The MMR06 rocket was built in two versions: One version had a conical

Cone (geometry)

A cone is an n-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a base to a point called the apex or vertex. Formally, it is the solid figure formed by the locus of all straight line segments that join the apex to the base...

 top, the second one, named MMR06-M, had a detachable free flying top, also called dart

Dart (rocket)

A dart is a free flying top of a sounding rocket, and contains the payload. Its form is very aerodynamically designed. After the launch stage burned out the dart is detached and continues to rise only with its own inertia....

. The maximum flight height was about 60 - 80 kilometres. Between 1988 and 1992 62 rockets of the type MMR06-M were launched from the former NVA exercise area Zingst

Zingst

Zingst Peninsula is the easternmost portion of the three-part Fischland-Darß-Zingst Peninsula, located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany between the cities Rostock and Stralsund on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The area is part of the Pomeranian coast...

, in order to accomplish wind and temperature measurements in the upper atmosphere

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Total

Total mass	134 ±5 kg
Mass empty	58 kg
Fuel mass	78 kg
Length	4.14 m
Distance from end of nozzle to center of gravity at launch	1.445 m
Distance from end of nozzle to center of gravity at burn-out (Brennschluss Brennschluss Brennschluss is an English borrowed term :*The moment in the trajectory of a rocket when the fuel burns out, after which it continues with its own momentum for some distance and then begins to succumb to gravity.... )	1.872 m
Distance from end of nozzle to center of wind pressure	1 m
Axial moment of inertia Moment of inertia In classical mechanics, moment of inertia, also called mass moment of inertia, rotational inertia, polar moment of inertia of mass, or the angular mass, is a measure of an object's resistance to changes to its rotation. It is the inertia of a rotating body with respect to its rotation...  at launch	0.87 kg/m²
Axial moment of inertia at burn-out	0.25 kg/m²
Equatorial moment of inertia at launch	394.5 kg/m²
Equatorial moment of inertia at burn-out	158.5 kg/m²

schematic flight path of MMR06-M rocket

Aerodynamic coefficients

Cd (drag coefficient Drag coefficient In fluid dynamics, the drag coefficient is a dimensionless quantity that is used to quantify the drag or resistance of an object in a fluid environment such as air or water. It is used in the drag equation, where a lower drag coefficient indicates the object will have less aerodynamic or... )	0.42
Cl (lift coefficient)	20
Cm	34.4
Burn-out velocity	1428 m/s
Rotational velocity of rocket around own axis	800 rpm Revolutions per minute Revolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...

Rocket engine

Mass with payload	121.8 kg
Mass without payload with transition piece	38 kg
Mass without payload without transition piece	33 kg
Length with transition piece	2.813 m
Length without transition piece	2.444 m
Time of burn-out	7.2 s - 12 s
Diameter	0.2 m
Wing span	0.6 m
Angle of attack Angle of attack Angle of attack is a term used in fluid dynamics to describe the angle between a reference line on a lifting body and the vector representing the relative motion between the lifting body and the fluid through which it is moving...  of wings	5' - 40'

Dart

Mass	12.2 kg
Length	1.478 m
Diameter	0.063 m
Distance from end of dart to center of gravity	0.78 m
Distance from end of dart to center of wind pressure	0.5 m
Axial moment of inertia	0.00752 kg/m²
Equatorial moment of inertia	3.48 kg/m²
Wing span	0.148 m
Angle of attack between wings and longitudinal axis	0°
Velocity at expulsion of probe	3.65 m/s
Aerodynamic coefficients
Cd	0.15
Cl	20
Cm	34.4

Land

• Kapustin Yar
  Kapustin Yar
  Kapustin Yar is a Russian rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast, between Volgograd and Astrakhan. Known today as Znamensk , it was established 13 May 1946 and in the beginning used technology, material, and scientific support from defeated Germany...
  
  
• Molodyozhnaya Station (Antarctica)
• Krenkel
• Priliv
• Volna
  Volna
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• Zingst
  Zingst
  Zingst Peninsula is the easternmost portion of the three-part Fischland-Darß-Zingst Peninsula, located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany between the cities Rostock and Stralsund on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The area is part of the Pomeranian coast...
  
  

External links

• MMR06 website at Encyclopedia Astronautica