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English: NRL Ionosphere 1 solar X-ray, ionosphere, meteorite mission launched a V-2 on September 29, 1949, from White Sands at 16:58 GMT and reached 151.1 km.
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Source US Naval Research Laboratory from url=http://www.nrl.navy.mil/accomplishments/rockets/v-2-rockets/
Author Naval Research Laboratory
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Images from the Naval Research Laboratory are usually in the public domain as a US government national laboratory.

In 1946, NRL was invited to participate in the Army's V-2 rocket program. Eighty experiments were performed between 1946 and 1951.

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