V-2

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07.09.1944 Niemcy przeprowadziły pierwsze operacyjne wystrzelenie rakiety V-2, pierwszego pocisku balistycznego dalekiego zasięgu, przeciwko Paryżowi.
Oba loty rakiet nie powiodły się z powodu przedwczesnego wyłączenia silników.
https://heritagecalling.com/2019/11/25/devastating-v2-rocket-attack-on-woolworths-new-cross-london/

On #TDIH in 1944, Germany conducted its first operational launches of a V-2, the first long-range ballistic missile, against Paris. Both rockets that were launched failed, due to premature cutoffs: https://s.si.edu/45GqtIF

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1699813810515665298

Our V-2, currently off display, will return in a new guise with green camouflage paint, when “RTX Living in the Space Age Hall” opens in 2026. Read a blog about the history and restoration of our V-2:
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/restoring-museums-v-2-missile

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1832585125634191719
https://v2rockethistory.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket


2) 24.10.1946 z poligonu rakietowego White Sands wystrzelono RN V-2 z eksperymentami do badań środowiska kosmicznego oraz kamerą filmową.
Rakieta osiągnęła wysokość 104,8 km, a film ujawnił pierwsze zdjęcie naszej planety wykonane z kosmosu.
Rakieta wraz z eksperymentami rozbiła się o Ziemię.
https://apesinspace.co/blogs/space-history/24-october-1946-v2-rocket-takes-first-photo-of-earth-from-space
https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html

1946 October 24 - . 19:15 GMT - . Launch Site: White Sands. Launch Complex: White Sands LC33. Launch Vehicle: V-2.

Solar ultraviolet / chemical release mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: APL, US Army. Apogee: 105 km (65 mi).
Launched 12:18 local time. Reached 104.8 km. Carried cosmic and soalr radiaiton, winds, photography experiments for Applied Physics Lab, John Hopkins University. The John Hopkins camera took motion pictures of the earth at over 100 km altitude (pictures covered 100,000 square km.)

http://www.astronautix.com/o/october24.html

The unknown above ⬆️
Earth below ⬇️
On Oct. 24, 1946, a rocket launched from White Sands Missile Range with a motion picture camera. The rocket reached an altitude of 65 miles and the film that crashed back to Earth revealed the first image of our planet ever taken from space.

https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1716862119159734657

24 October 1946. 17.18.00 UTC/GMT captured V-2 (A4) rocket launched from the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Designated Upper Air Rocket Number 13, it carried a 35-millimeter DeVry Corporation cine camera and captured the first photograph of Earth from space.

https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1849147108764402052

Flight of the V-2 (Upper Air  Rocket Number 13) 24 October 1946. It reached a maximum altitude of 65 miles after 180 seconds, above the Kármán Line. Impacting northwest of the White Sands Launching, the film cassette was recovered from the debris.

https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1849147248468209969