Canopus is the name of an
Argentinian sounding rocket. The
Canopus rocket was launched as a sounding rocket under the name
Canopus 2 and as the first stage of the
Rigel between 1969 and 1973. The maximum flight altitude reached by the
Canopus was 150 kilometres;
its launch mass was 300 kilograms and its length four metres.
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