Jupiter missile

Jupiter Missiles, more commonly recognized as High Velocity Artillery rockets, are a form of extraplanetary kinetic energy weapon, often fired from Jupiter.

Jupiter Missile Media

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  Admiral Arleigh Burke is credited with breaking the Navy out of its moribund ways, and pressing for development of the SLBM.

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  The Navy's Polaris had range similar to Jupiter.

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  Secretary of Defence Neil McElroy visits the Jupiter prototype assembly line at ABMA. ABMA built the test articles, while Chrysler built the production models.

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  Jupiter (AM-18), suborbital primate flight with Able and Baker as its payload, being ready for launch, May 28, 1959

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  Able and Baker, the first two primates who survived space travel aboard Jupiter AM-18.

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  Mercury-Jupiter (center) compared with Redstone (left) and Atlas (right). Mercury-Jupiter was a proposal, and not launched.

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  864th Strategic Missile Squadron emblem

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  Deployment locations for Jupiter missiles in Italy from 1961 to 1963

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  Jupiter with its "petal" cover open.

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  Jupiter was designed in an era when nuclear weapons were still very large and heavy. Its large reentry vehicle is typical of missile designs of the 1950s.