Oracle is the name of a model rocket with built in digital camera, manufactured by Estes, for aerial photography. In opposite to the camera rocket Astrocam the Oracle allows manufactoring a complete film of a rocket flight. The Oracle is best flown with a D12 propellant.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has launched a sub-orbital rocket for scientific research not a missile capable of reaching space as earlier reported, an aerospace official told an Iranian news agency on Sunday.
So-called "sounding rockets" are often used to probe atmospheric conditions between 45 km and 160 km (28 miles and 100 miles) above the earth, between the maximum altitude of weather balloons and the minimum altitude of orbiting satellites.
Iran launched its first satellite, Sina-1, into orbit from a Russian rocket in 2005 and has said it planned to modify its Shahab-3 missile, which Iran says has a range of about 2,000 km (1,250 miles), to launch satellites.
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