Суборбитальные пуски (научные и экспериментальные)

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Launch successful at 5:30 am. Payload flew to approximately 94 miles. Next launch from Wallops is a Black Brant IX suborbital rocket targeted for mid-September.

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Запись трансляции пуска (Ustream) - http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/106844554

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Early morning start here at NASA Wallops with our RockSat-X sounding rocket launch! The payload has been recovered and is on its way back to Wallops where students are eagerly awaiting its return. https://go.nasa.gov/2hWh8cp







NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 33 мин. назад

The RockSat-X student payload launched at 5:30 a.m.; payload has been recovered and is on its way back to Wallops! https://go.nasa.gov/2hWh8cp 

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/rocksat-x-successfully-launches-from-nasa-wallops

Aug. 13, 2017

RockSat-X Successfully Launches fr om NASA Wallops

The RockSat-X student payload was successfully launched on a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket at 5:30 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 13, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The payload flew to an altitude of 94 miles during its suborbital flight. It descended by parachute and landed in the Atlantic Ocean wh ere it was recovered.

The payload will be returned to Wallops later today, Aug. 13; the experiments will be removed and returned to the student teams.

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Long exposure of the RockSat-X launch.
Credits: NASA/Jamie Adkins

More than 100 students from 15 universities and community colleges from across the Unites States participating in RockSat-X were on hand to witness the launch.

The experiments were flown through the RockSat-X program in conjunction with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. RockSat-X is the most advance of NASA's three-phase sounding rocket program for students. The RockOn launches are at the entry level then progress to the intermediate level RockSat-C missions, culminating with the advanced RockSat-X.

The three-tier program introduces secondary institution students to building experiments for space flight and requires them to expand their skills to develop and build more complex projects as they progress through the programs. RockSat-X experiments are flown approximately 20 miles higher in altitude than those in the RockOn and RockSat-C programs, providing more flight time in space.

The next launch from Wallops is a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket in mid-September carrying a technology development payload.


Students with the RockSat-X group pose in front of their rocket prior to launch operations. The RockSat-X mission successfully launched from NASA Wallops Aug. 13.
Credits: NASA/Jamie Adkins

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Last Updated: Aug. 13, 2017
Editor: Jeremy Eggers

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https://www.nasa.gov/Wallops/2017/feature/nasa-mission-to-study-atmospheric-disturbances-from-marshall-islands

Aug. 23, 2017

NASA Mission to Study Atmospheric Disturbances fr om Marshall Islands


The WINDY instrumented payload flying on a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket is prepared in an integration facility at Roi Namur.
Credits: NASA

A NASA rocket mission to study disturbances in the upper atmosphere that interfere with communication and technology systems will form night-time white artificial clouds visible by residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands during two rocket flights to occur between August 29 and September 9.

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The Waves and Instabilities fr om a Neutral Dynamo, or WINDY, mission will study a phenomenon that occurs in the ionosphere – a layer of charged particles in the upper atmosphere. Known as equatorial spread F, or ESF, these disturbances occur after sunset at latitudes near the equator in part of the ionosphere known as the F region. The disturbances interfere with radio communication, navigation and imaging systems and pose a hazard to technology and society that depends on it.

The WINDY mission consists of two NASA suborbital sounding rockets that will be launched nearly simultaneously in a window between 8 and 11 p.m. local time (4 and 7 a.m. EDT) Aug. 29 through Sep. 9 from Roi-Namur. The Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands is near the magnetic equator, wh ere post-sunset ionosphere storms are more intense, making the site an ideal location for these studies.

One rocket will carry a substance called tri-methyl aluminum, or TMA. This substance will form the white artificial clouds that glow in the night sky. Scientists on the ground photograph the movement of these clouds to measure the winds and energetic particles that are in motion in the upper atmosphere. The clouds are expected to be visible for about 30 minutes.

The first rocket launched, a two-stage 47-foot long Black Brant IX rocket, will carry and release both TMA and lithium.  The release of the lithium vapors is not visible to the naked-eye but can be viewed with special cameras on the ground.

The TMA is deployed between 50 and112 miles altitude while the lithium is deployed between 155 and 217miles altitude. Both substances, which are harmless to residents on the ground when released at these altitudes, move with the atmospheric winds and can therefore be used to determine the wind speeds and direction over the area wh ere these ionosphere storms are occurring.

TMA reacts spontaneously on contact with oxygen to produce a pale white glow visible from the ground. For the WINDY mission, sunlight reflected by the Moon, will illuminate lithium producing an emission that can be detected with cameras equipped with narrow-band filters. Using moonlight allows the launches to occur later in the evening when the critical ESF conditions occur.

The second rocket, a two-stage 36-foot long Terrier-Malemute, will be launched five minutes after the first rocket. The second rocket carries instruments to measure ionosphere densities and electric and magnetic fields present in these storms.

The ionosphere is defined as the layer of Earth's atmosphere that is ionized by solar and cosmic radiation.  Ionization occurs when incoming energetic radiation strips electrons from atoms and molecules, creating temporarily charged particles. The nighttime ionosphere has two layers E and F. Disturbances in the F layer, the layer studied by WINDY, degrade radio and radar signals at magnetic latitudes.  Predicting these disturbances ahead of time, could help improve the reliability of space-borne and ground-based communication systems.

WINDY attempts to answer questions about the origin of ESF by measuring how horizontal thermosphere winds influence the formation of ESF, as well as taking direct measurements of ionosphere densities and electric and magnetic fields inside these storms.

Data from the ARPA Long-Range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar, or ALTAIR, located on Kwajalein Atoll will play a key a role in the mission. ALTAIR is used to monitor the state of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere in order to determine when the large-scale disruptions occur and will tell the scientists when to launch the rockets.  ALTAIR also will be used to monitor the evolution of the ESF after the rockets launch.

WINDY is supported by researchers from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Clemson University, South Carolina; and Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Photo Caption: A sounding rocket leaves the launch pad during a 2013 sounding rocket campaign from Roi Namur.  Credit: NASA

More information on NASA sounding rocket missions and the use of artificial clouds and vapor tracers in science research is available at:

www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets

NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is conducted at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility, on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Wallops is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Orbital ATK provides mission planning, engineering services and field operations through 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: Aug. 23, 2017
Editor: Patrick Black

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https://www.nasa.gov/Wallops/2017/feature/nasa-mission-to-study-atmospheric-disturbances-from-marshall-islands

NASA Mission to Study Atmospheric Disturbances from Marshall Islands

UPDATE – Sept. 11, 2017: NASA launched two sounding rockets Saturday, Sep. 9, supporting the Waves and Instabilities from a NeutralDynamo,or WINDY, mission from Roi-Namur, the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

A Black Brant IX sounding rocket was successfully launched at 7:34 a.m. EDT (11:34 p.m. local time) and was followed five minutes later by a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding. The first rocket flew to approximately 254-miles altitude and released its tri-methyl aluminum (TMA) and lithium, forming vapors to allow scientists to measure the winds and energetic particles that are in motion in the upper atmosphere. The flight was considered a success.


A NASA Black Brant IX launches at 11:34 p.m. local time from Roi-Namur, the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Credits: NASA/Matt Griffin

The second rocket, carrying instruments to measure densities and electric and magnetic fields in the ionospheric disturbance, did not obtain useful data. The mission is under investigation.

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https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2017/press-release/nasa-launching-parachute-test-platform-from-wallops-oct-3

Sept. 26, 2017

NASA Launching Parachute Test Platform from Wallops Oct. 3

NASA will test a parachute platform during the flight of a Terrier-Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 6:45 a.m. EDT, Oct. 3, from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The launch window for the 58-foot tall rocket runs until 10:15 a.m. EDT. The backup launch days are Oct. 4 - 14.

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The Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) payload in the Testing and Evaluation lab at NASA Wallops.
Credits: NASA/Berit Bland

The rocket will carry the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The mission will evaluate the performance of the ASPIRE payload, which is designed to test parachute systems in a low-density, supersonic environment.

The flight is being conducted through NASA's Space Mission Directorate.

The payload carrying the development project 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. The payload will be recovered and returned to Wallops for data retrieval and inspection.

The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will open at 6 a.m. on launch day for viewing the flight. The rocket launch is expected to be visible in the local area.

Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 6:15 a.m. on the Wallops Ustream site. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites.

Smartphone users can download the "What's Up at Wallops" app, which contains information on the launch as well as a compass showing the precise direction for launch viewing.

NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is conducted at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility. Orbital ATK provides mission planning, engineering services and field operations through 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
keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov
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Last Updated: Sept. 26, 2017
Editor: Patrick Black

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Sept. 15, 2017

ASPIRE Launch Visibility Map

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ASPIRE Launch Visibility Map.

Credit: NASA/Wallops Mission Planning Lab

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Last Updated: Sept. 15, 2017
Editor: Jeremy Eggers

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NOTMAR на ASPIRE

( 280346Z SEP 2017 )

NAVAREA IV 864/2017 (12)

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
VIRGINIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   031045Z TO 031500Z OCT, ALTERNATE 1045Z TO 1500Z
   DAILY 04 THRU 14 OCT IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 37-50-11N 075-29-03W, 37-48-31N 075-24-16W,
   37-50-08N 075-23-53W, 37-50-34N 075-28-36W.
   B. 37-58-49N 074-48-41W, 38-01-46N 074-29-30W,
   37-49-57N 074-19-23W, 37-29-10N 074-24-26W,
   37-24-12N 074-47-22W, 37-35-39N 074-59-18W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 141600Z OCT 17.

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 5 ч назад

Launch Update: ASPIRE mission launch will occur no earlier than Oct. 4, to allow for completion of testing of instrumentation recording unit

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NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
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Good day for a rocket launch from Wallops. A Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket carrying the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) is scheduled for launch at 6:45 a.m. The launch window extends to 10:15 a.m. The launch is expected to be visible in the Wallops area. Live launch coverage begins at 6:15 a.m. on the Wallops Ustream site (www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops) and NASA TV. The NASA Visitor Center opens at 6 a.m. for launch viewing.

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NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
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Checks of the ASPIRE payload with the two-stage Black Brant IX rocket in the horizontal position have been completed. Next up is final arming of the rocket, raising it to the launch position and final payload checks. The weather looks good for the launch this morning at 6:45 a.m.