Keywords: V2Sep1949.jpg en NRL Ionosphere 1 solar X-ray ionosphere meteorite mission launched a V-2 on September 29 1949 from White Sands at 16 58 GMT and reached 151 1 km US Naval Research Laboratory from url http //www nrl navy mil/accomplishments/rockets/v-2-rockets/ Naval Research Laboratory 1949-09-29 Images from the Naval Research Laboratory are usually in the public domain as a US government national laboratory In 1946 NRL was invited to participate in the Army's V-2 rocket program Eighty experiments were performed between 1946 and 1951 PD-USGov-Military-Navy X-ray astronomy V-2 sounding rockets |