A NASA-funded sounding ... Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging, or Micro-X, experiment is set to launch Aug. 21 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Sounding rockets don't achieve orbit ...

The FOXSI sounding rocket ... requires X-ray vision, and scientists have been hard at work developing the best tools for the job. The latest advance in this project is represented by NASA's ...

The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer ... Amy Winebarger at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, MaGIXS will fly aboard a sounding rocket, a launch vehicle ...

Investigators at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will use observations from a recently-launched sounding rocket mission ... Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer ...

The DXL sounding rocket confirmed one theory on X-ray emissions from our surroundings ... About a quarter of the high-energy X-rays picked up by the NASA-funded DXL sounding rocket on its most ...

NASA's DXL sounding rocket ventured through the ... others whose origin remains a mystery. NASA's rocket, called the Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local Galaxy (DXL) rocket, discovered that ...

A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand ... of light and separates it into its component wavelengths or spectrum, much as a prism separates light into a rainbow.

Astronomers have successfully tested a sensitive new X-ray telescope by blasting it ... in New Mexico on 21 February 2001 aboard a NASA sounding rocket. The testing method cost about ten times ...

Finding the traces of nanoflares requires X-ray vision, and scientists have ... FOXSI is supported through NASA's Sounding Rocket Program at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.