Project CHARM

From The Space Library

Canadian High Altitude Research Missile was a project undertaken in late 1957 by engineers at the de Havilland Company of Canada, based in Downsview Ontario. The group of 21 engineers founded the Canadian Astronautical Society to undertake the building and testing of the rocket which they hoped would reach an altitude of 100,000 feet with a scientific payload of one pound. It was to have been equipped with the ability to measure temperature, pressure and acceleration.

The two-stage rocket was to be powered by a solid fuel mixture of asphalt and potassium perchlorate which had been developed at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. The rocket would use this fuel in a radial burning configuration.