US-Canada ballistics research project famous for its extremely large gun
Not to be confused with HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
This article is about the space launch gun research project. For other projects, see Harp (disambiguation).
HARP 16-inch (410 mm) gun
Project HARP, short for High Altitude Research Project, was a joint venture of the United States Department of Defense and Canada's Department of National Defence created with the goal of studying ballistics of re-entry vehicles and collecting upper atmospheric data for research. Unlike conventional space launching methods that rely on rockets, HARP instead used very large guns to fire projectiles into the atmosphere at extremely high speeds.[1][2]
A 16-inch (41 cm) HARP gun operated by the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (now called the U.S. Army Research Laboratory) at Yuma Proving Ground currently holds the world record for the highest altitude, 180 km (110 mi), that a gun-fired projectile has achieved.[3][4]
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