Agency: Naval Research Laboratory
    Time: 1308 MST
    Altitude: 95 miles

UPPER AIR INSTRUMENTS

    Cosmic radiation: Geiger counter telescopes
    Solar radiation: Ultra-violet spectrograph
    Pressure-temperature: Ambient pressure gages on nose and tail sections
        Skin temperature gages on nose tip.
    High altitude photography: Two K-25 cameras in midsection

DATA RECOVERY INSTRUMENTS

    Telemeter: PXTA-501, 23 channel NRL PPM/AM system
    Physical recovery: Nose separation with explosives in control chamber.

BALLISTIC INSTRUMENTS

    Firing Range
        Theodolites: Seven Askania stations
        Cameras: Three Bowen-Knapp stations
        Telescopes: Two stations
        Radar: Two modified SCR-584 S-band stations
        Doppler: Four stations.
        Impact location: None.

    Airborne
        Beacon: AN/APN-55 S-Band transponder
        Doppler: DOVAP transceiver
        Radio Cutoff: AN/ARW-17 FM control receiver for command fuel cutoff and blowoff
        Other: Routine rocket propulsion and control performance instruments. (G. E. Co.).

ROCKET PERFORMANCE

    Firing angle:
    Program angle: 21.0 degrees - actual trajectory angle
    Time to burnout: 69 sec.
    Altitude at burnout: 23.4 miles
    Velocity at burnout: 5204 ft. per sec.
    Time to zenith:
    Altitude to zenith: 96 miles
    Time to blowoff:
    Altitude to blowoff:
    Flight duration:
    Impact Coordinates: 131 miles North (range)
    Payload weight:
    Unfueled rocket weight: 9050 lbs.
    Unfueled rocket C.G.: 237.4 inches
    Gross weight at takeoff: 28,727 lbs.

BALLISTIC DATA

    Theodolites: Data 0 to 200 sec.
    Cameras: Bowen-Knapp
    Telescope: Data 0 to 200 sec., rocket visible to 330 sec.
    Radar: No data, beacon failed
    Doppler: Data 0 to 160 sec.
    Impact location: Ground and air search

DATA RECOVERY

    Telemeter: Good record
    Physical recovery: None.

EXPERIMENTAL DATA

    Comments: No data, all instruments went off at takeoff

COMMENTS

    Rocket performance: Extraordinary range introduced by control system failure, rocket
        extremely unstable after burnout

REPORTS AND PAPERS

    Preliminary Report on Firing  of V-2 No. 16, 5 December 1946," White Sands Proving Ground.
    Report No. 695, by H. P. hitchcock, Ballistics Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground,
        April 1949
    Report No. 639 by H. P. hitchcock and V. M. Reklis, Ballistics Research Laboratories,
        Aberdeen Proving Ground, October 1947
    "V-2 Report No. 8," Minutes of Meeting of the V-2 Upper Atmosphere Research Panel on
        28 January 1947
    "Final Report, Project Hermes V-2 Missile Program," by L. D. White, Report No. R52A0510
        General Electric Company, September 1952.