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Scheduled to be launched on separate days, the two rockets will team up with Nasa’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite to advance the understanding of the atmospheric dynamo.
NASA will be launching two sounding rockets under its Dynamo-2 mission to team up with a satellite. This will help in studying the giant electric current in Earth’s ionosphere.
Scheduled to be launched on separate days, the two rockets will team up with Nasa’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite to advance the understanding of the atmospheric dynamo.
Scott England, a space physicist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and collaborator for the upcoming Dynamo-2 campaign, said, It’s a really tricky part of space to get measurements, because the air is much too thin for an aircraft, and yet it s still too dense to fly most spacecraft . He added, So one way of making these measurements is to fly a rocket through it .
How to Watch Rocket Launch From NASA s Wallops Virginia Flight Facility on Tuesday
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Rocket to launch from NASA Wallops Island Tuesday morning
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Screenshot of the rocket launch capture by Dan Whittaker of Carolina Weather Group on May 16, 2021. [courtesy Youtube/Dan Whitaker/Carolina Weather Group]
After a bout of the winds and clouds scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rocket from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore over the past week, the launch finally took place Sunday evening.
And a number of lucky folks looking to the skies over the Outer Banks were able to spot it.
The Carolina Weather Group’s Dan Whittaker captured incredible video of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload from Wallops Island.