Scout (rocket family)#Blue Scout Junior
The Blue Scout Junior missile was a three - or four-stage American sounding rocket of the U.S. Air Force, whose development was derived from the military Blue Scout version of the Scout rocket. The missile was based on the Castor rocket motor.
A modified three-stage version was used by NASA under the name RAM-B three times.
The missile could reach up to 200,000 km, bringing the Blue Scout Junior was the sounding rocket with the biggest peak altitude suborbital flights at heights. Launch took place both from Cape Canaveral, as well as from Vandenberg Air Force Base from. Civilian flights conducted by NASA Wallops Flight Facility from the.
In addition to technological experiments, the Blue Scout Junior SLV -1C also served as an emergency communication system ( ERCS, Emergency Rocket Communication System) for the U.S. armed forces. This system was from 1963 to 1967 at three bases in Nebraska ready for use until it was replaced by modified Minuteman II missiles.