Rohini Sounding Rockets
The first sounding rocket was launched 1967 from Thumba , near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. . But even after many decades, there sounding rockets have great importance in different fiend of science and technology. These have been extensively used for carrying out metro-logical and scientific experiments by many of the scientists from India and abroad. These sounding rockets were launched manly form Thumba. But Some of the large rockets like RH-560 were launched from SHAR for specific experiments. These programmes lead to the establishment of a strong base in the rocket technology for the development launch vehicles.
At present there are four different variants of rohini sounding rockets were utilized for various applications. They are RH-200, RH-300, RH-300 Mk II, RH-560 Mk II
Details of various sounding rockets of india are given below
