The two skinny rockets soared to an altitude of 320km, and along the way each released a visible gas intended to disperse through and illuminate conditions inside the aurora borealis. Some of the ...

The first Brazilian sounding rocket launched from Sweden's Arctic range dropped its payload about 10 km. inside Norway, but otherwise performed as expected in a Dec. 1 microgravity experiment mission.

A Texus sounding rocket can propel up to 270 km altitude to return to Earth in an elongated arc. As it falls freely, the experiments inside experience weightlessness—six minutes of valuable ...

The MaGIXS sounding rocket mission before its July 30, 2021, launch. (Image credit: ... observing them could still reveal what's happening inside the sun. And specifically, ...

A NASA-funded sounding rocket launches into an aurora in the early morning of March 3, 2014, over Venetie, Alaska. The GREECE mission studies how certain structures — classic curls like swirls ...

Inside each sounding rocket, dedicated research space is divided into decks, each with its own electrical and data ports to accommodate separate, even unrelated experiments.

The Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local galaxy, or DXL, sounding rocket launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Dec. 13, 2012, to study the source of certain X-rays observed ...

A new sounding rocket mission will measure winds in the ... These missions will launch from the Andøya and Svalbard rocket ranges in Norway to study the processes occurring inside the Earth's ...

In this case, the sounding rocket will carry the telescope more than 65 miles (110 kilometers) above the surface of Earth; at that altitude, the atmosphere thins out enough to permit UV readings.

Unity reached Mach 3 — three times the speed of sound — before the rocket motor was switched off shortly before 9 a.m. Then the vessel coasted to its highest altitude of 55.87 miles above sea ...

A Texus sounding rocket can propel up to 270 km altitude to return to Earth in an elongated arc. As it falls freely, the experiments inside experience weightlessness ...