NOTS-EV-1 Pilot

The NOTS-EV-1 Pilot, better known as NOTSNIK was an expendable launch system and anti-satellite weapon developed by the United States Navy's United States Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS). NOTSNIK began as an in-house project using available NOTS funds. The Advanced Research Projects Agency later supplied some funds for the program. The program involved creating transistorized sensors to detect nuclear explosions from the Operation Argus tests. Ten were launched during July and August 1958, all of which failed. It was the first air-launched rocket to be used for an orbital launch attempt; however, none was recorded as having reached orbit. Following the third orbital launch attempt a NOTS engineer at the tracking station in Christchurch, New Zealand reported receiving a weak signal from the spacecraft; This was never confirmed, and the launches were not catalogued as having reached orbit. The Pilot rocket was part of Project Pilot.

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NOTSNIK
expendable launch vehicle, aerial rocket, anti-satellite weapon, United States Navy, United States, 
United States, Ashkenaz, Calvinist Republic of Ghent, Chinland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Havilah, Kingdom of Martabam-hongsawatoi, Kingdom of Wolaita, Persia, Sikh Confederacy, Sweden, Tarshish, Dong Fang Hong 2, Ekran, expendable launch vehicle, Republic of Haiti, 

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Project Pilot on ground 2

Project Pilot on ground 1

Project Pilot on ground 3

Project Pilot on ground 4

Project Pilot launch

Project Pilot take-off

Project Pilot flight

NOTSNIK test shape on F4D-1 Skyray at Armitage Field in 1958

Project Pilot Ground Launch

Pilot (NOTSnik) with F4D-1 Skyray

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Project Pilot on ground 2		Commons
commons	image		Project Pilot on ground 1		Commons
commons	image		Project Pilot on ground 3		Commons
commons	image		Project Pilot on ground 4		Commons
commons	image		Project Pilot launch		Commons
commons	image		Project Pilot take-off		Commons
commons	image		Project Pilot flight		Commons
commons	image		NOTSNIK test shape on F4D-1 Skyray at Armitage Field in 1958		Commons
commons	image		Project Pilot Ground Launch		Commons
commons	image		Pilot (NOTSnik) with F4D-1 Skyray		Commons