It was a team effort at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility as personnel from Sounding Rockets, Education, Engineering, Range, and Safety joined together for the successful launch of the RockSat-X mission at 6:00 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 13, on Wallops Island. A Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket carried student experiments designed and built by nine university and community college teams to an altitude of 102 miles above Earth’s surface. Once recovered, the students’ experiments were returned for analysis. Missed the launch? Find it on the NASA Wallops channel on YouTube.
Wallops’ scientific balloon team is in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, for the annual fall balloon campaign. Eight scientific balloons will be launched into the stratosphere, while carrying scientific experiments and technology demonstrations. The launch window will be open from mid-August through mid-October.
Wallops’ airfield team will support several military aircraft performance teams at NASA Wallops from August 22-26. The performance teams will participate in an upcoming air show held in Ocean City, Maryland.
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