Sounding Rocket Program News Today

After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission – Hi-C Rocket Flare, for short – took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a solar flare.

For a brief moment in April, team members with Marshall Space Flight Center could get their best opportunity yet to study a solar flare using a combination of new technologies

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In the past 12 months, the youngest service has awarded contracts worth an estimated $11.9 billion.

NASA has launched a rocket into the wonderous display of auroras in Alaskan skies. But what was the purpose of flying this rocket?

A second sounding rocket launch from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Accomack County has been postponed after an unknown "anomaly" occurred with the first rocket.

Space Test Support and Satellite Environmental Testing Nuclear Weapons Effects Testing. Hypersonic/Long Range Systems Hypersonic/Long Range Systems is a collaborative effort between the Army and its Sister Services to deliver precision-strike dominance on land, sea, in the air and beyond , ranging from hypersonic missiles with a range of more than 1,000 miles, to an upgraded long-barrel howitzer. White Sands Missile Range is helping this leap-ahead technology as it transitions from the science...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services Supports Successful Sounding Rocket Launch of AFRL ... Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.March 12, 2021 GMT SAN DIEGO, March 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Sounding Rocket Program (SRP)-4 launch vehicle team under subcontract t...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Artistic visualization of the Suns magnetic field in the active region observed by CLASP2 view more  Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the outer layers of the solar atmosphere, where the explosive events that occasionally affect the Earth occur. The extraordinary observations of the polarization of the Suns ultr...