“RockSat-X provides students an opportunity to improve their skills through experiment development and then analyzing their data following the launch,” said Giovanni Rosanova, chief of the Sounding Rockets Program Office at Wallops. RockSat-X gives students the experience of building experiments for space flight. The experiments are being flown through the RockSat-X program in conjunction with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. The onboard payload includes a device to help payloads descend autonomously after an electrical failure a sublimation-fueled motor for spacecraft machine-learning applications for space robotics a deployable boom for capturing high-definition, 360-degree video of a rocket’s experiments a probe for measuring electrical currents in the ionosphere and an ejection system for returning small spacecraft to Earth. The student projects focus on technology development for sounding rockets and spacecraft. The students will receive their flown experiments and any stored data after the payload is recovered from the ocean. 10 and 11.Īfter flying to around 91 miles altitude, the payload carrying the experiments will descend by parachute and is expected to land in the Atlantic Ocean, about 64 miles off the Virginia coast, 15 minutes after launch. The NASA Wallops Visitor Center will be open to the public for viewing the flight, which is expected to be visible from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland and southern Delaware. EDT, with live coverage scheduled to begin at 5:10 p.m. Launch is scheduled between 5:30 and 9 p.m. The student experiments will launch on a 44-foot-tall Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket. 9 to launch experiments that they designed and built into space. Community college and university teams from across the United States will descend on NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Aug.
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