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https://www.nasa.gov/Wallops/2017/feature/nasa-wallops-successful-launch-rocks-with-student-experiments

June 22, 2017

NASA Wallops Successful Launch Rocks with Student Experiments

A NASA suborbital sounding rocket carrying multiple student experiments was successfully launched at 5:30 a.m. EDT, Thursday, June 22, fr om the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.


Participants attending Rocket Week gather for a group photo following the successful launch of the RockOn and RockSat-C experiments.
Credits: NASA/Berit Bland

The mission carried experiments built by undergraduate students from universities and community colleges across the country through the RockOn! and RockSat-C programs.

The experiments, launch on a 36-foot long Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket, flew to an altitude of 72 miles and landed, via parachute, in the Atlantic Ocean. The payload has been recovered and the students are expected to receive their experiments this afternoon to begin their data analysis.

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RockOn! and RockSat-C are part of Rocket Week at Wallops. Nearly 130 students and instructors participated in the two programs this week conducted in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia.

In RockOn!, the participants receive instruction on the basics required in building and developing a scientific payload for flight on a suborbital rocket. After learning the basics in RockOn!, students may then participate in RockSat-C, wh ere they design and build an experiment for flight.

Through RockOn! 23 experiments measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation were flown.  Nine experiments were flown through RockSat-C involving more 13 institutions.

In addition to the RockOn! And RockSat-C experiments, more than 80 small cubes with experiments developed by middle school students in 49 states as part of the Cubes in Space program were flown through a partnership between idoodlelearning inc and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.

The flight marked the tenth mission through the RockOn! program and the ninth for RockSat-C. In its 10-year history, students and instructors from 39 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have participated in the program.

Ryan Schrenk from Capitol Technology University in Washington, D.C. said, "As the principal investigator and lead engineer on a previous successful sounding rocket mission, after attending the RockOn workshop I was impressed with how much there was to learn. I was able to hone skills and master techniques that I thought I already knew. I was also impressed by how much my students are able to absorb in such a short amount of time. My students came thinking they were lacking the necessary skillsets and knowledge and now express great confidence in their ability to become successful engineers and contributors to the missions they fly."

In addition to RockOn! And RockSat-C participants, Rocket Week also included 20 high school educators from across the country in the Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers. During the week, these teachers have been receiving instruction on the basics of rocketry including Newton's Laws, fundamentals of electronics, drag and propulsion. This instruction is applied to hands-on learning activities, including building and launching model rockets, that can be used in the classroom.

The RockOn!, RockSat and WRATS programs are supported by the NASA Sounding Rocket Program. RockOn! also is supported by NASA's Office of Education and NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia, as well as the program participants.

NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is conducted at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility, which is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Orbital ATK provides mission planning, engineering services and field operations for the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the sounding rocket program for the agency.

Keith Koehler
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia

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Last Updated: June 22, 2017
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RockOn/RockSat C payload successfully launched

NASA

Опубликовано: 22 июн. 2017 г.

A NASA suborbital sounding rocket carrying multiple student experiments was successfully launched at 5:30 a.m. EDT, Thursday, June 22, from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The mission carried experiments built by undergraduate students from universities and community colleges across the country through the RockOn! and RockSat-C programs.
 
The experiments, launch on a 36-foot long Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket, flew to an altitude of 72 miles and landed, via parachute, in the Atlantic Ocean. The payload has been recovered and the students are expected to receive their experiments this afternoon to begin their data analysis.
 
RockOn! and RockSat-C are part of Rocket Week at Wallops. Nearly 130 students and instructors participated in the two programs this week conducted in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia.

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/nasa-sounding-rocket-will-release-early-morning-artificial-clouds0lighting-up-the-mid-atlantic-coast-may-31

UPDATE (3:35 p.m., Friday, June 23): June 24 Artificial Cloud Rocket Launch Postponed

The launch of the NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket scheduled for Saturday, June 24, has been postponed due to expected cloudiness in the region. A new launch date has not been determined.

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-funded-chess-mission-will-check-out-the-space-between-stars

June 23, 2017

NASA-Funded CHESS Mission Will Check Out the Space Between Stars

Deep in space between distant stars, space is not empty. Instead, there drifts vast clouds of neutral atoms and molecules, as well as charged plasma particles called the interstellar medium — that may, over millions of years, evolve into new stars and even planets. These floating interstellar reservoirs are the focus of the NASA-funded CHESS sounding rocket mission, which will check out the earliest stages of star formation.

CHESS — short for the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph — is a sounding rocket payload that will fly on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket early in the morning of June 27, 2017. CHESS measures light filtering through the interstellar medium to study the atoms and molecules within, which provides crucial information for understanding the lifecycle of stars.

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Floating clouds of the interstellar medium are the focus of the NASA-funded CHESS sounding rocket mission, which will check out the earliest stages of star formation. Here, the CHESS payload is integrated with the sounding rocket before launch.
Credits: photo courtesy of Kevin France

"The interstellar medium pervades the galaxy," said Kevin France, the CHESS principle investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "When massive stars explode as supernovae, they expel this raw material. It's the insides of dead stars, turning into the next generation of stars and planets."

CHESS is a spectrograph, which provides information on how much of any given wavelength of light is present. It will train its eye at Beta Scorpii — a hot, brightly shining star in the Scorpius constellation well-positioned for the instrument to probe the material between the star and our own solar system. As light fr om Beta Scorpii streams toward Earth, atoms and molecules — including carbon, oxygen and hydrogen — block the light to varying degrees along the way.

Scientists know which wavelengths are blocked by what, so by looking at how much light reaches the space around Earth, they can assess all sorts of details about the space it travelled through to get there. CHESS data provides observations such as which atoms and molecules are present in space, their temperatures and how fast they're moving.

The scientists also use CHESS data to evaluate how the interstellar cloud is structured, which can help them pinpoint where it stands in the process of star formation. It's still not known exactly how long it takes for this material to be incorporated into new stars. But scientists know dense clouds can pave the way for the collapse at the very beginning of star formation.

The flight of a sounding rocket is a short one; CHESS will fly for about 16 minutes total. Just six-and-a-half of those minutes are spent making observations between 90 and 200 miles above the surface — observations that can only be made in space, above the atmosphere, which the far-ultraviolet light that CHESS observes can't penetrate. After the flight, the payload parachutes to the ground, wh ere it can be recovered for future flights.

This is the third flight for the CHESS payload in the past three years, and the mission's most detailed survey yet. The scientists have used each to trial and improve the technology; the upcoming flight sports an upgraded diffraction grating, which reflects light and separates it into its different wavelengths.

"A more efficient grating means the instrument is that many times more sensitive," France said. "Compared to the first flight of CHESS, this third incarnation is about eight times more sensitive."

By flying rapidly developing instruments on relatively inexpensive sounding rockets, scientists are not only able to acquire high-quality science data, but also test and mature their instruments toward possible spaceflight. According to France, the CHESS instrument serves as a spectrograph prototype for NASA's LUVOIR concept.

"Supporting technology and suborbital flight projects today directly translates into lower risk and shorter development time for NASA's large missions in the next two decades," France said.

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The launch window for CHESS opens at 1:10 a.m. EDT at the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Precise timing of the launch will depend on weather conditions.

CHESS is supported through NASA's Sounding Rocket Program conducted at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility, which is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Orbital ATK provides mission planning, engineering services and field operations for the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the sounding rocket program for the agency.


By Lina Tran
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 4 мин. назад

Grab a cup of coffee and join us early for the vapor rocket launch from @NASA_Wallops now set for 4:15-4:45 a.m., Thursday. June 29.

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/nasa-sounding-rocket-will-release-early-morning-artificial-clouds0lighting-up-the-mid-atlantic-coast-may-31

UPDATE  3 p.m., Monday, June 26: The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket is scheduled for launch between 4:15– 4:45 a.m., Thursday, June 29.  The backup launch day is June 30.

 The launch window is determined by sun angles and also moon down conditions.  Thus, this launch window is early morning compared to the previous evening launch window for this mission.

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/nasa-sounding-rocket-will-release-early-morning-artificial-clouds0lighting-up-the-mid-atlantic-coast-may-31

UPDATE  11 a.m., Tuesday, June 27: The launch is on schedule for Thursday, June 29, of the NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket for the vapor release mission.  However, the launch time has been refined to 4:25 – 4:48 a.m. The backup launch day is June 30.

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-funded-chess-mission-will-check-out-the-space-between-stars

UPDATE June 27, 2017: The launch of the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph — or CHESS — on a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket was successfully conducted on June 27, 2017, at 1:10 a.m. EDT (June 26 at 11:10 p.m. MDT) from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Preliminary indications are that a good flight was conducted and science data was received during the flight.

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NASA Wallops‏Verified account @NASA_Wallops 5 мин. назад

Count has started under clear skies, light winds for sounding rocket launch @NASA_Wallops between 4:25-4:48 a.m.

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NASA Wallops‏Verified account @NASA_Wallops 2 мин. назад

Early July 4th light display with launch this morning from Wallops at 4:25. Vapor clouds seen from Staten Island, NY, to Outer Banks, NC.

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Terrier-Improved Malemute launch ampule test 6/29/17

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/105262720

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NASA Wallops‏Verified account @NASA_Wallops 3 ч. назад

The wait is over! The Terrier-Improved Malemute launched this morning, June 29, at 4:25 a.m. An early Independence Day fireworks display!!

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Terrier-Improved Malemute Launch: Vapor deployment test

NASAWallops

Опубликовано: 29 июн. 2017 г.

A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket was successfully launched at 4:25 a.m., Thursday, June 29. The rocket flew to an altitude of about 118 miles. The mission was a test of a new multi-canister ejection system for deploying vapors in ionosphere or aurora sounding rocket missions.

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Nighttime Rocket Launch Creates Colorful Clouds in Space

NASA

Опубликовано: 29 июн. 2017 г.

The early morning skies along the mid-Atlantic coast were lit up by luminescent clouds as NASA tested a new system to support science studies of the ionosphere and aurora, with a sounding rocket launch June 24 from the Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia. During the flight of a two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket, 10 canisters about the size of a soft drink can were deployed in the air, 6 to 12 miles away from the 670-pound main payload. The deployed canisters formed blue-green and red artificial clouds, or vapor tracers which allow scientists on the ground to visually track particle motions in space. The development of the multi-canister ampoule ejection system is also designed to allow scientists to gather information over a much larger area than previously allowed when deploying the tracers just from the main payload. The vapor tracers were expected to be visible from New York to North Carolina and westward to Charlottesville, Virginia – with the total flight time for the mission expected to be about 8 minutes.

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