☢️ Sandia National Laboratories has conducted the Atrax sounding rocket flight test, capturing real-world reentry vibration data two years ahead of scheduled tests to inform the design of nonnuclear components for the W93 warhead, the first entirely new U.S. nuclear weapon program in nearly 30 years.
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US: Sandia tests rocket to learn how warheads survive violent reentry
Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories successfully conducted the Atrax sounding rocket flight test to collect real-world reentry vibration data.
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