TE-416 Tomahawk

The TE-416 Tomahawk is a sounding rocket developed by the American company Thiokol at the beginning of the 1960s for Sandia National Laboratories.

[2][1] Initial flights were in the scope of the 1963 International Quiet Sun Year.

In 1968 NASA used a version called D-Region Tomahawk for a single flight out of Wallops Island.

[1] The TE-416 Tomahawk has a thrust of 9,500 lbf (42 kN) and a burn time of 9.5 seconds.

Although the TE-416 Tomahawk can be launched alone, it was started predominantly as upper stage in connection with other rockets, for example with a Nike rocket as first stage (Nike Tomahawk).