Rocket launch at Wallops Flight Facility
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For the fourth night in
For the fourth night in a row, NASA is hoping to launch a sounding rocket from its Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.
The first three attempts were all hampered by upper-level winds in the atmosphere.
On Tuesday, NASA officials said the wind conditions at Wallops had improved, but there was a concern of cloud cover at its observation site in Bermuda.
Tuesday's launch window opens at 8:05 p.m. and runs until 8:45 p.m.
When the rocket does go up, it could provide a nice light show for the eastern U.S. and Hampton Roads when it does take off.
The mission launch is to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket, according to a news release.
NASA said a four-stage Black Brant XII rocket will be used for the mission that includes the release of barium vapor that will form two green-violet clouds that may be visible for about 30 seconds.
The barium vapor is not harmful to the environment or public health.
The KiNETic-scale energy and momentum transport eXperiment, or KiNet-X, is designed to study a very fundamental problem in space plasmas, namely, how are energy and momentum transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected, according to NASA.
The first three attempts were all hampered by upper-level winds in the atmosphere.
On Tuesday, NASA officials said the wind conditions at Wallops had improved, but there was a concern of cloud cover at its observation site in Bermuda.
Tuesday's launch window opens at 8:05 p.m. and runs until 8:45 p.m.
When the rocket does go up, it could provide a nice light show for the eastern U.S. and Hampton Roads when it does take off.
The mission launch is to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket, according to a news release.
NASA said a four-stage Black Brant XII rocket will be used for the mission that includes the release of barium vapor that will form two green-violet clouds that may be visible for about 30 seconds.
The barium vapor is not harmful to the environment or public health.
The KiNETic-scale energy and momentum transport eXperiment, or KiNet-X, is designed to study a very fundamental problem in space plasmas, namely, how are energy and momentum transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected, according to NASA.
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