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English: Pogo missiles. According to the WSMRM, These small rockets were used to carry a 24-foot metallized parachute or instrumentation package to altitudes above 50,000 feet. After being ejected at peak altitude the parachute or signals from the instrumentation would appear as an aerial target on radar screens.
Source White Sands Missile Range Museum
Author U.S. Navy/White Sands Missile Range Museum
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Public domain This work is from the White Sands Missile Range Museum website. All photographs on the site are in the public domain unless otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is appreciated.

See the site's privacy & security notice, and OTRS ticket 2008060210016776 for a clarification from the museum's director.

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current13:11, 26 January 2005Thumbnail for version as of 13:11, 26 January 2005500 × 375 (93 KB)Dickbauch~commonswiki (talk | contribs)Pogos, Bild von http://www.wsmr-history.org/psn.htm, {{PD}}

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