The SARGE vehicle is based on the STIG B platform developed as part of Armadillo Aerospace's lunar lander program. The SARGE vehicle employs a LOX-ethanol propulsion module based on the LE23000FC series engines, producing approximately 5500 lbs of thrust. The airframe is a reusable sounding rocket with a 20 inches (51 cm) diameter, and is 36 feet (11 m) tall. Helium pressurant cold gas thrusters provide attitude control for pitch-roll-yaw and pointing capability. Payload must fit inside a 20 inches (51 cm) diameter cylinder, be no more than 36 inches (91 cm) tall (in its standard configuration) and weigh no more than 50 kilograms (110 lb).
Specifications
- Thrust
- 24 kN
- Height
- 11 m
- Diameter
- 0.51 m
- Launch mass
- —
- Stages
- 1
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- —
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Boosters that flew this rocket
Boosters by flights
- SARGE 14 flights3/4 landings
Serial-tracked stages only — predominantly SpaceX.
Launches
- SARGE | Launch 4 — Failure
- SARGE | Launch 3 — Partial Failure
- SARGE | Launch 2 - "Mission 1" — Partial Failure
- SARGE | Launch 1 - "Pathfinder" — Partial Failure