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Nike Cajun

retired
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Specifications

Status
retired
Height
7.7 m
Diameter
0.42 m
Mass
0
Stages
2
First flight
1956-07-06
Total launches
4
Success / Fail
4 / 0

The Nike-Cajun was a two-stage sounding rocket built by combining a Nike base stage with a Cajun upper stage. It was launched 714 times between 1956 and 1976 and was the most frequently used sounding rocket of the western world.