Rocket Pictures #4
Scale Photos
AIM-54A Phoenix being loaded on an F-14
Hughes neg 72-17109, Dec 11, 1972
AIM-54A Phoenix being launched from an F-14
Hughes neg 72-14838, Jul 22, 1972
Sandhawk rocket poised on a launcher at Sandia Laboratories' Tonopah (Nevada) Test Range. The Sandhawk is a single-stage, solid propulsion sounding rocket. It has a Thiokol TE-M-473 motor that develops 24,500 pounds of thrust. It is 13 inches in diameter, 24.1 feet long and carries a 200-pound gross payload to an altitude of 110 miles.
Sandia caption, neg C66-3565, undated