Magellan - Black Brant

One of the most popular sounding rockets ever built, the Magellan-designed family of Black Brants have played a leading role in scientific exploration since 1962. More than 1,000 Black Brants have been launched with a vehicle success rate above 98%. Designed and developed at Magellan Aerospace, Black Brants are used as a single or multi-stage vehicle for placing scientific payloads into space or as a ballistic missile target. The most reliable, cost-effective and available sounding rocket in use today, they are continuously updated with new technology to meet NASA’s changing needs: up to 20 minutes of time for microgravity experiments, auroral studies, deep space observations, and other extraterrestrial research.