Meteor (rocket)

Meteor was a series of one- and two-stage meteorological rockets using solid fuel, constructed for the research of the upper layers of the atmosphere, wind directions and forces from 18 km to more than 50 km above the Earth's surface.

During a flight, a biological experiment with earlier trained two white mouses was conducted (the RM-2D rocket achieved the altitude of 1,580 meters).

This programme had been continued to 1974, when rockets were bearing out from the area of experimental center founded there during the years of the Second World War, located on west side of Łeba.

The valuable data both meteorological and connected with rocket techniques were collected and analyzed as the result of these researches.

The programme of flights of Meteor-2 was finished during the same year, when Poland started to participate in Interkosmos research, using the Vertical rockets, which were derived from R-14 missile.

One stage, but two units rocket called "Meteor-1" had the length of 2,470 mm and the initial mass of 32.5 kg.

The charge of metal dipoles was released by rockets and this material had later been observed on radar screens.

The range of flight was increased and the rocket gained possibility of launching of few charges of dipoles.