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Arcas (rocket)
Arcas was an American single-stage solid-propellant sounding rocket developed by Atlantic Research for the Office of Naval Research, lifting small payloads to about 64 km at low cost.
Loki (rocket)
Loki, known as the Loki Dart, was an American solid-propellant rocket that failed as an anti-aircraft weapon and became a widely used meteorological sounding rocket in the 1950s and 1960s.
Rocketsonde
A rocketsonde is an expendable meteorological instrument released from a small rocket near apogee, measuring wind, temperature, pressure, and moisture during descent through the upper atmosphere.