In October 2023, a trio of sounding rockets traveled more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) into the ionosphere before returning safely back to theEarth's surface. Now, they're getting ready for their second flight. NASA's Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission — named fo...
The rockets won’t be the only instruments being used to monitor effects caused by the total solar eclipse. Researchers are planning to release high-altitude balloons and deploy radar to study atmospheric changes. Photo of the APEP sounding rockets and the support team after a successful assembly...
If you are planning on getting in the car and driving the day of the eclipse, here are a few things to keep in mind. Allow plenty of time to get to where you’re going, and if you happen to be in the car when totality hits, don’t just stop your car—there’s anincrease...
NASA will also share two other livestreams: One broadcast that will show a “clean” telescope feed of the eclipse that, weather permitting, will offer views of the eclipse from 12 locations in the path of totality and another that will show the launch of three sounding rockets for a...
Finally, NASA will launch three sounding rockets into the moon’s shadow during the eclipse to study changes in the ionosphere. If you’d like to watch those launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, you can see that onYouTubeas well. ...
In March 1967, for example, NASA launched sounding rockets from Wallops Island, producing an array of colored clouds in the evening sky. On March 31, 1967, The New York Times reported that the display "puzzled thousands of persons" in the New York area, and also resulted in people along...
Launched two new student challenges. TheTechRise Student Challengeinvites teams of sixth to 12th-grade students to design, build, and launch climate, remote-sensing, and space exploration experiments on suborbital rockets and high-altitude balloon flights. TheLunabotics Junior Chall...
Did you know NASA has finally revealed the truth about the fake moon landings? Published July 16, 2022 by The People’s Voice Mainstream media barely reported on the astonishing revelations, so most people remain none the wiser about what NASA has admitted in the last 12 months. ...
This is currently a very underserved market, with long lead times and no guarantee of payload recovery on conventional sounding rockets. NASA is jump-starting a revolution in the commercial space industry and scientific research by pairing up payload investigators with cutting edge private suborbita...
Three different types of sounding rockets will be used to create the five cloud trails: two Terrier Improved Malemutes, two Terrier Improved Orions and one Terrier Oriole. These small rockets are powerful enough to launch instruments off the planet on short flights, but not strong enough to reac...