Exploring The Frontier Of Space
A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket carrying the RockSat-X payload was successfully launched at 7:01 a.m. EDT, Saturday, April 18, 2015. The rocket carried experiments developed by undergraduate students from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and […]
NASA will fly six university experiments developed by undergraduate students from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia between 6:45 and 10 a.m., Friday, March 27. The experiments will examine technology development, microgravity science and the search for life in the upper atmosphere and near space during the suborbital mission, which will reach an altitude of […]
January 20, 2015 – Five rockets are on the pad and waiting to go from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The weather and/or science conditions have not been conducive for launch to support the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere Turbulence Experiment (MTeX), Mesospheric Inversion-layer Stratified Turbulence (MIST) mission and the Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP). The […]