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<h2 id="design-and-development">Design and development</h2> <p>Intended to assist in the development of rocket and <a href="/facts/Missile/C5VwQClz">missile</a> technologies, Shavetail was a small, inexpensive, <a href="/facts/Unguided_rocket/yTtyeLsj">unguided</a> <a href="/facts/Solid-fueled_rocket/RpgdYKIU">solid-fueled rocket</a> that was capable of being modified to be tested in various configurations.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> Among the systems tested was one to ensure precise <a href="/facts/Payload/wb7m7LLV">payload</a> separation at motor burnout.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="operational-history">Operational history</h2> <p>A series of eleven launches of the Shavetail rocket were conducted in late 1959, starting in August and ending in October.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The maximum range of Shavetail was 6 miles (9.7 km).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h3>Notes</h3> <h3>Bibliography</h3> <ul><li>Baker, David (1978). <i>The Rocket: The History and Development of Rocket & Missile Technology</i>. New York: Crown. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0517534045. <a href="/facts/OL_(identifier)/A13NLNNh">OL</a> <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4714156M">4714156M</a>.</li> <li>Parsch, Andreas (2024). <a href="https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/other.html#shavetail">"(Other): "Missile Scrapbook""</a>. <i>Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles</i>. designation-systems.net. Retrieved 2011-01-19.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Shavetail". White Sands Missile Range Missile Park. White Sands Missile Range Museum. Retrieved 2011-01-19. <a href="http://www.wsmr-history.org/Shavetail.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wsmr-history.org/Shavetail.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Baker 1978, p.142. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Parsch 2024 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Shavetail". White Sands Missile Range Missile Park. White Sands Missile Range Museum. Retrieved 2011-01-19. <a href="http://www.wsmr-history.org/Shavetail.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wsmr-history.org/Shavetail.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>