Aspect ratios range from 1.42 to 1.8. There is no standard for the business card dimensions. Sharing dimensions with other cards makes storage easier, for example banking cards (85.60 Ã 53.98 mm) and business cards in Western Europe (85 Ã 55 mm) have almost the same size.
Side-by-side comparison of Sonda rockets, to scale. Sonda is a family of Brazilian-built sounding rockets which serves as an R&D path to the VLS (Portuguese: VeÃ­culo LanÃ§ador de SatÃ©lites) orbital rocket.
Brazil's Ministry of Aeronautics has space launch and tracking facilities in northeast Brazil on the country's 4,603-mi.-long Atlantic Ocean coast near Alcantara and Natal, not far south of the equator. The European Space Agency space launch site is nearby on the Atlantic Coast at Kourou, French Guiana, north of the equator. VLS.