WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WRIC) — NASA launched a sounding rocket from their Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Monday night. The two-stage suborbital-sounding rocket was scheduled for launch March ...

The other experiment launching on a sounding rocket is called the Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from Nearby Exoplanet host stars (SISTINE).

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — NASA Wallops launced a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket Monday evening. The launch window opened at 7 p.m. and the rocket launched at 7:12 p.m. Weather ...

ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va.- A sounding rocket is expected to launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Accomack County on Monday, depending on the weather. NASA says the Suborbital Technology ...

NASA launched three sounding rockets at the moon’s shadow during Monday’s total solar eclipse to study how the phenomenon affects the Earth’s atmosphere. The first Atmospheric Perturbations ...

The rocket performed three experiments in microgravity, per the SCC: research contributed to "the green transitions," a possible look at the origins of planets and combustion of iron powder.

NASA is launching three sounding rockets April 8 during the solar eclipse to study how the sudden drop in sunlight affects our upper atmosphere.

Because they’re sounding rockets, they will go up to the target height, and come back down, which means that they’re equipped with a parachute recovery system.

NASA will launch sounding rockets and WB-57 high-altitude planes to conduct research on aspects of the sun and Earth that‘s only possible during an eclipse.

The maximum altitude reached by the Far Side rockets may have been 4,000 miles (6,440 km). This object was donated to the Smithsonian in 1965 by the Aeronutronics Division of the Ford Motor Co.