Суборбитальные пуски (научные и экспериментальные)

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 2 ч. назад

Gone Fishing ! The RockSat-X experiments splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean about 64 miles off the coast. They will be fished out of the ocean using a recovery boat and returned to the students for further analysis.

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RockSat-X

Terrier-Improved Malemute launches RockSat-X experiments

SciNews

Опубликовано: 14 авг. 2018 г.

A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket launched experiments developed by university students in the RockSat-X program, on 14 August 2018, at 10:13 UTC (06:13 EDT), from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. After flying to around 98 miles altitude (~157 km), the experiments descended by parachute in the Atlantic Ocean. RockSat-X is the most advanced of NASA's three-phase sounding rocket program for students. The RockOn launches are at the entry level, then progress to the intermedia level RockSat-C missions and then RockSat-X.
Credit: NASA Wallops

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Dave Dickinson‏ @Astroguyz 14 авг.

Here's a quick .gif showing the dissipation of the rocket plume at dawn as seen from downtown Norfolk, Virginia, post- suborbital rocket launch from @NASA_Wallops this morning:

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ASPIRE 3

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NOTMAR (local)

aspire_2018_pao_notmars_0.pdf

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 6 ч. назад

We're two weeks away from our next launch ! The ASPIRE mission will conduct its third test of the Mars 2020 rover parachute on Sept. 7 with a launch window from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. View the countdown and visibility map:

https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/wmsc/#/home .

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SARGE
(reusable Suborbital Autonomous Rocket with GuidancE (SARGE))

SPACEPORT AMERICA
SARGE Pathfinder Launch

EXOS Aerospace

Прямой эфир: 25 авг. 2018 г.

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SARGE

We Found SARGE

EXOS Aerospace

Прямой эфир: 25 авг. 2018 г.

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Headed Back To Launch Camp

EXOS Aerospace

Прямой эфир: 25 авг. 2018 г.

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https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2018/feature/nasa-launching-mars-lander-parachute-test-from-wallops-sep-7

Aug. 31, 2018

NASA Launching Mars Lander Parachute Test from Wallops Sep. 7


The ASPIRE 3 payload is prepared at the Wallops spin/balance facility. The test is similar to balancing a car tire to improve the stability of the payload.
Credits: NASA/Berit Bland

NASA will conduct the third in a series of parachute tests for possible future missions to Mars during the flight of a Terrier-Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket in the morning on Sep. 7, 2018, from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The launch window for the 58-foot tall rocket is from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT. The backup launch days are Sep. 8 – 15.

The rocket will carry the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The payload carrying the parachute test article is expected to reach an altitude of 32 miles approximately 2 minutes into the flight. The payload will splash-down in the Atlantic Ocean 40 miles from Wallops Island and will be recovered and returned to Wallops for data retrieval and inspection.

The payload is a bullet-nosed, cylindrical structure holding a supersonic parachute, the parachute's deployment mechanism, and the test's high-definition instrumentation -- including cameras -- to record data.

The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will open at 8:30 a.m. on launch day for viewing the flight.  The rocket launch is expected to be only seen from the Wallops area.

Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on the Wallops Ustream site. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites.

ASPIRE is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, with support from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is based at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the sounding-rocket program for the agency.

By Keith Koehler
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.

Last Updated: Aug. 31, 2018
Editor: Patrick Black

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FOXSI

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-funded-rocket-to-view-sun-with-x-ray-vision

Sept. 4, 2018

NASA-funded Rocket to View Sun with X-Ray Vision

Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid façade are countless miniature explosions called nanoflares.

These small but intense eruptions are born when magnetic field lines in the Sun's atmosphere tangle up and stretch until they break like a rubber band. The energy they release accelerates particles to near lightspeed and according to some scientists, heats the solar atmosphere to its searing million-degree Fahrenheit temperature.

All of this happens in colors of light so extreme that the human eye can't see them. Nanoflares aren't visible — at least not to the naked eye.

Finding the traces of nanoflares requires X-ray vision, and scientists have been hard at work developing the best tools for the job. The latest advance in this project is represented by NASA's Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI mission, soon to take its third flight from the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, no earlier than Sept. 7.

FOXSI is a sounding rocket mission. Derived from the nautical term "to sound," meaning to measure, sounding rockets make brief 15-minute journeys above Earth's atmosphere for a peek at space before falling back to the ground. Smaller, cheaper and faster to develop than large-scale satellite missions, sounding rockets offer a way for scientists to test their latest ideas and instruments — and achieve rapid results.

FOXSI will travel 190 miles up, above the shield of Earth's atmosphere, to stare directly at the Sun and search for nanoflares using its X-ray vision.

"FOXSI is the first instrument built specially to image high-energy X-rays from the Sun by directly focusing them," said Lindsay Glesener, space physicist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and principal investigator for the mission. "Other instruments have done this for other astronomical objects, but FOXSI is so far the only instrument to optimize especially for the Sun."

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The Sun tells its story in layers of light, each of which reveals what's happening at different temperatures. For example, the sunlight that our eyes can see is primarily from the Sun's photosphere, which is approximately 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. But there's much more going on outside the bounds of human vision. X-ray light, in particular, reveals processes that heat plasma to millions of degrees Fahrenheit, like the most violent explosions at the cores of nanoflares.


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This video shows views of the Sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in different wavelengths of visible and extreme ultraviolet light. Notice how features on the Sun that are visible in one wavelength are not visible in another, because they have different temperatures
Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Studio/Scientific Visualization Studio/Tom Bridgman
Download this video in HD formats from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio

But high-quality views of X-rays from the Sun don't come easy. Unlike visible light, X-rays are hard to focus; they are largely unaffected by the lenses and mirrors used in conventional telescopes. Previous X-ray missions had to make do without focused light.

"In the past we generally used cleverly sel ected masks to block out some part of the incoming X-rays," said Säm Krucker, space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal investigator for FOXSI's two previous flights. "This does not result in very high-quality images, but it nevertheless gave us crucial information on the most energetic part of solar flares."

To focus the X-rays, the FOXSI team used extremely hard, smooth surfaces tilted to a small angle (less than half a degree) that would gently corral incoming X-ray light to a point of focus.


On its second flight, FOXSI captured evidence of hard X-ray emission from nanoflares. FOXSI's observations of hard X-rays are shown in blue outlining the very hottest regions of the solar atmosphere, superimposed over a soft X-ray image of the Sun from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) and NASA's Hinode solar-observing satellite.
Credits: JAXA/NASA/Hinode/FOXSI

"Thanks to these telescopes we can now make focused X-ray images of our Sun" said Krucker. "These images have a much-improved image quality at a much higher sensitivity."

This will be FOXSI's third flight — its first was in 2012, during which it successfully viewed a small solar flare in progress, and its second in 2014, when it detected the best evidence at the time of X-ray emission from nanoflares. The third mission follows up on this discovery, but this time it includes a new telescope designed for imaging lower-energy, so-called soft X-rays as well.

"Including the soft X-ray telescope gives us more precise temperatures," said Glesener, allowing the team to spot nanoflare signatures that would be missed with the hard X-ray telescopes alone. In addition, several other performance improvements have been made to produce more accurate, higher-resolution images.

FOXSI's third flight will also be the first led by Glesener, who was a graduate student, and then the project manager, for the previous two flights led by Krucker.

"This kind of training and project inheritance is common in sounding rocket programs," said Glesener. "They are designed to grow and mature scientific leaders as well as hardware!"

FOXSI is a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and has co-investigators fr om the University of Minnesota; University of California at Berkeley; NASA's Goddard and Marshall space flight centers in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Huntsville, Alabama, respectively; the University of Tokyo; Nagoya University; the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan; and Tokyo University of Science. FOXSI is supported through NASA's Sounding Rocket Program at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the sounding rocket program.

Banner image: FOXSI on the rail for its first launch on Nov. 2, 2012. Credit: NASA/FOXSI/UC Berkeley

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By Miles Hatfield
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Last Updated: Sept. 4, 2018
Editor: Rob Garner

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ASPIRE 3

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
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The ASPIRE mission is expected to reach an altitude of 32 miles approximately 2 minutes into the flight and splash down into the Atlantic about 40 miles from Wallops Island.

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ASPIRE 3

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ASPIRE 3 

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