The project is in cooperation with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. In addition, several secondary schools will fly more complex experiments on the rocket as part of RockSat-C.

The launch is the culmination of the week-long workshop and includes those experiments the participants built during the workshop. University and community college students and instructors from across the United States will converge on Wallops for a week during RockOn! IX to learn about building suborbital rockets experiments. Eight colleges, universities and community college systems have developed experiments that will fly on this mission planned to reach an altitude of approximately 95 miles.

This will be the sixth launch supporting the RockSat-X educational payload in partnership with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. companies enables a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new science investigations aboard the world’s only microgravity laboratory. This will be the sixth planned cargo resupply mission by Orbital ATK under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with the company and the fourth launch from Virginia. This will be a test of a technology development(SubTec-7)for the deployment of payload components in support of future sounding rocket missions. This is the 10th anniversary of RockOn whee university and college students and instructors visit Wallops and learn the basics of building experiments for suborbital flight. The June rocket will carry 23 experiments from the RockOn! program, nine experiments from the RockSat-C program and more than 80 small cubes with experiments developed by middle school students in 49 states as part of the Cubes in Space program. The development of the canister or ampoule ejection system will allow scientists to gather information over a much larger or spatial area than previously allowed when deploying the vapor just from the main payload. These clouds or vapor tracers allow scientists on the ground to visually track the winds in space. Between approximately 3.5 and 5 minutes after launch, blue-green and red vapor will be deployed from the canisters forming artificial clouds. Nine colleges, universities and community college teams have developed experiments that will fly on this mission planned to reach an altitude of approximately 95 miles.ĭuring the flight of a two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket, ten canisters about the size of a one-liter drink bottle will be deployed to 6 to 12 miles from the 670-pound main payload. This will be the seventh launch supporting the RockSat-X educational payload in partnership with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. The live web stream at begins at 6:15 a.m. The mission will evaluate the performance of the ASPIRE payload – which is designed to test parachute systems in a low-density, supersonic environment. The rocket will carry the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Launch of the Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft with supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.

The schools are Utah State University, University of Nebraska, University of Kentucky, and Florida Institute of Technology. Launch of four student experiments through the NASA University Student Instrument Program. During the 2017 total solar eclipse over North America, scientists watched a speeded up version of this process play out when the moon completely blocked the sun's light for a few moments, causing 'ripples' in the ionosphere as temperatures and ion density rapidly dipped, then rose again just after the eclipse's peak.Supply mission to the International Space Station Here, the sun's ultraviolet radiation rips electrons away from atoms, forming a vast sea of charged particles throughout the day at sundown, many of these electrons recombine into neutral atoms, until the sun's morning rays return and split them apart again. Less understood is how an eclipse affects the electrically-charged upper atmosphere, or ionosphere, which begins between 30 and 50 miles (50 to 80 kilometers) above Earth. We know from prior eclipses that this sudden drop in daylight can have some really strange effects on the planet, including rapid changes in temperature, wind patterns and even animal behavior. At its peak, Saturday's eclipse will see roughly 90% of the sun's light blocked by the moon.

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