Sentences with phrase «sounding rocket launched»

A 58 - foot (17.7 - meter) Black Brandt IX sounding rocket launched the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) payload from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.

McCandliss, who now has completed 17 sounding rocket launches since his first in 1989, has co-written a number of published papers based entirely or in part on information collected on these missions.

Not exact matches

(Although my husband always says it sounds like I should launch a rocket ship after all of the buttons I push!

Earlier this year, QUANTUS researchers launched their apparatus on a sounding rocket from Kiruna, Sweden.

Hoping to build up a more complete picture of nanoflares and their contribution to coronal heating, Glesener is leading a team to launch a third iteration of the FOXSI instrument on a sounding rocket in summer 2018.

The study makes use of a wealth of data captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, JAXA / NASA's Hinode, and several ground - based telescopes in support of the launch of the NASA - funded VAULT2.0 sounding rocket.

Daw also reported the results from another experiment launched on sounding rockets in 2012 and 2013 that imaged soft X-rays from the corona.

So the sound of the countdown leading up to a rocket launch is music to my ears.

More worryingly for space agencies, such sound levels can also damage the launch structure, or worse, be reflected back at the comparatively delicate rocket above.

Project officials hoped the new launcher, essentially a souped - up sounding rocket, would provide a low - cost launch option for small satellites, including cubesats, which are becoming increasingly popular with universities and government agencies.

It's back to Alaska, this time to the Poker Flat Research Range, where former Director Neal Brown and his staff launched sounding rockets into the heart of the Aurora Borealis.

Now, this sounds easy but once you throw in a big group of players, shotguns, rocket launches, giant sports balls, and more into the mix, it becomes a little more difficult.

It's a three - stage process, which makes it sound rather like a rocket launch.