Sounding Rockets Program

2024 Solar Eclipse
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Wallops Flight Facility
Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia April 8, 2024, during the solar eclipse.
Posted April 9, 2024
Wallops Flight Facility
Heliophysics Division
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission are scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility launch range in Virginia. The launch window opens April 8, 2024, at 2:40 p.m.
Posted April 4, 2024
Astrophysics
Heliophysics Division
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand how explosive stellar deaths lay the groundwork for new star systems. The Integral Field Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Experiment, or INFUSE, sounding rocket mission, will launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Oct. 29, 2023, at 9:35 p.m. MDT. For a few months […]
Posted October 27, 2023
2023 Solar Eclipse
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Solar Eclipses
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Uncategorized
A NASA sounding rocket mission will launch three rockets during the 2023 annular eclipse in October to study how the sudden drop in sunlight affects our upper atmosphere. On Oct. 14, 2023, viewers of an annular solar eclipse in the Americas will experience the Sun dimming to 10% its normal brightness, leaving only a bright “ring of fire” of […]
Posted September 29, 2023
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