Taiwanese researchers are to conduct the maiden flight test of an indigenously designed HTTP-3A sounding rocket’s second stage propulsion system on Tuesday morning, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University said yesterday.
The test is scheduled to take place at the Syuhai Interim Sounding Rocket Launch Site in Pingtung County as the first-ever launch at the site, the university said in a statement.
The university operates the Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC), which developed the rocket.
After the first stage is launched, the rocket’s second stage would be deployed when it reaches an altitude of 10km, then deploy deceleration parachutes and fall into the