Project HARP
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project-harp-206-18015348
title:
Project HARP
text:
Project HARP, for high altitude research project, was a joint venture of the United States Department of Defense and Canada's Department of National Defence created with the goal of studying ballistics of re-entry vehicles and collecting upper atmospheric data for research. Unlike conventional space launching methods that rely on rockets, HARP instead used very large guns to fire projectiles into the atmosphere at extremely high speeds. A 16-inch (41 cm) HARP gun operated by the U.S. Army's Ball
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
US-Canada ballistics research project famous for its extremely large gun
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
date created:
2003-08-08T22:43:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T22:32:52Z
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13
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