Суборбитальные пуски (научные и экспериментальные)

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В рамках данного заказа требуется поставить, установить и ввести в эксплуатацию техническое средство обеспечения предстартовой подготовки и запуска ракеты МН-300 в целях реализации мероприятия 8 (11) «Оснащение станций ракетного зондирования МР-30, п. Тикси, радиолокационными станциями для сопровождения ракет, приемной радиотелеметрической аппаратурой».

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А значит высота подъёма 300 км.

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Satori пишет:

On March 13th, Brazil launched the first Foguete de Treinamento Básico (FTB) - Basic Training Rocket - of 2013. Four launches of the FTB are planned for 2013.

The floght time was 2m 53s. The rocket traveled a distance of 18 km and reached 34 km high.

The launch was from Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno (CLBI), Parnamirim, - Barreira do Inferno Launch Center.

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Galactic Penguin SSTпишет:

China made another sub-orbital sounding rocket launch earlier today. The Tianying-3E rocket was launched from a base on Hainan island (*) at 21:55 UTC on April 4 and reached an altitude of 191 km. The rocket carried 1 kg of solid barium particles that were released at apogee, and the resulting barium clouds were observed by 3 ground observing sites and equipment on the rocket (a Langmuir probe and an electric field probe).

This is the first Chinese active release sounding rocket mission launched, and is part of the Meridian ionosphere monitoring program managed by the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Other participants of the launch includes the CAS Xian Optical Machinery Institute and Austria's University of Graz for the "Kunpeng-1" payload package and the Chinese Academy of Aerospace Propulsion Technology for the sounding rocket.

(*) The launch site has been reported as the "Chinese Academy of Sciences Hainan Sounding Rocket Launch Site", and is apparently located near the village of Fuke, Yaxing Town, Danzhou City, Hainan Island, at 19.52 deg. North and 109.14 deg. East.

Sources:
news.xinhuanet.com/2013-04/05/c_115276269.htm
http://bbs.9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=2200&pid=61732

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Под этот пуск закрывался район к северо-западу от стартовой площадки:

TY-3E探空火箭发射通告
各有关单位及船舶：
 国家863"空间环境垂直探测试验"探空火箭发射任务定于4月5日至10日执行， 为确保船舶航行安全及发射工作顺利进行，特通告如下：
 一、发射时间：
 4月5日至10日的其中一天，时间暂定为凌晨0540时至0630时之间。
 二、火箭残骸下落区域为以下5点依次连线的海域内：
 A、108°34′09″E /20°18′02″N；
 B、108°17′56″E /20°02′39″N；
 C、108°39′53″E /19°41′56″N；
 D、109°07′00″E /19°31′00″N；
 E、108°56′04″E /19°57′19″N。
 三、注意事项：
 各船舶应避免在火箭发射时间内穿越残骸下落区域，以策安全。
                                   2013年4月3日

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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/pdf/739660main_apr5-2013.pdf

Prospector answers LSP call

By Steven Siceloff Spaceport News Nano- and microsatellites built by students, businesses and research organizations can catch their own rides into space now that a California-based company is launching operational flights of a high-altitude rocket big enough to carry payloads high into the atmosphere.
Garvey Spacecraft Corp.'s Prospector 18 (P-18 )  has made four flights so far, including an operational mission last December that saw it carry a research payload for NASA's Ames Research Center and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). The Long Beach, Calif.-based company is using the P-18 as a pathfinder for building a larger model that can reach orbit.
The development is important for NASA because it gives satellite builders a chance to fly high-altitude experiments before hitching a ride on a larger mission and rocket, said Garrett Skrobot of NASA's Launch Services Program who runs the CubeSat and Nanosat projects of the agency's ELaNa program, short for Educational Launch of Nanosatellites.
"Today, nanosat developers still depend on secondary ride opportunities to get to orbit," Skrobot said. "There are several operational issues with that approach. In response, with projects like this, we are taking the first steps with Garvey Spacecraft and other small launch vehicle developers to explore alternatives that could eventually lead to dedicated launch services that are tailored to the requirements of this market."
The High Altitude Launch Service contract paid for the December mission and another mission, scheduled to launch June 15. This flight will test the CP9/StangSat payload; a spacecraft being built by Merritt Island High School; Cal Poly's payload; a Rocket University experiment that is a product of Kennedy Space Center; and another research payload from Ames and a new lightweight nanosat carrier system.
The satellites in mind for the rocket are 4-inch squares that weigh about two pounds. Previously, they were carried inside a rectangular box fitted on larger rockets and sprung free into orbit once the main payload was deployed.
With a rocket fitted to the small satellite needs, though, more experiments and hardware also can be flown at a lower cost. The rocket's flight profile can be adjusted to meet specific needs of a research payload.


Photo courtesy of Kevin Baxter/Friends of Amateur Rocketry Inc.

The Prospector 18 suborbital reusable launch vehicle takes off last year during its first contracted launch performed for NASA's Launch Services Program

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For Immediate Release

April 8, 2013

Workshop to Explore Scientific Potential of Suborbital Spacecraft

April meeting includes first look at creating dedicated research 'space vessels'

While commercial firms design suborbital reusable launch vehicles that could carry tourists to outer space, scientists wonder if these same vehicles could blaze new trails into Earth's upper atmosphere as dedicated research platforms. Experts from the Earth science and commercial space communities will explore these possibilities for the first time in a workshop, "The End of the Ignorosphere," April 28–30 in Annapolis, Md.

Hosted by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), the meeting will allow scientists to discuss the latest commercial space developments and determine the utility, challenges and interest for the types of aeronomy investigations — studies of the upper atmosphere — enabled by the rapidly emerging commercial suborbital spacecraft industry.

Aside from vehicle developments, presentations will cover some of the investigations scientists already envision — and organizers invite the community to submit talks on potential atmospheric research that can be conducted up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) above Earth.

APL's H. Todd Smith, who heads the workshop's scientific organizing committee, says the chance to fly or send equipment to suborbital space — more frequently and at much lower cost than traditional satellite missions — is enticing and exciting. "This could lead to completely new thematic approaches in scientific investigations," he says. "We're talking about establishing a spacecraft as a dedicated research vessel, in the same way we now use aircraft, ships and submarines. Such an asset could revolutionize our understanding of the Earth and our atmosphere, and ignite new scientific, educational and engineering opportunities."

The workshop, which also includes sponsors such as XCOR Aerospace, will be held at the Historic Inns of Annapolis. To register, or for more information, visit the workshop website at https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/aeronomy/ .

http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2013/130408.asp

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http://www.ssc.se/texus-5051

TEXUS 50/51 RSS
Around six minutes of microgravity

The TEXUS programme started in 1977 and is carried out at Esrange Space Center jointly by DLR, EADS Astrium, Kayser Threde and SSC.
The project

The TEXUS project is a sounding rocket program with the primary aim to investigate the properties and behaviour of materials, chemicals and biological substances in a microgravity environment. The TEXUS program gives around six minutes of microgravity.
The TEXUS programme started in 1977 and is carried out at Esrange Space Center jointly by DLR, EADS Astrium, Kayser-Threde and SSC. SSC is responsible for the launch operations. The TEXUS campaigns are sometimes financed by ESA or jointly financed by DLR and ESA.
TEXUS 50/51

The rocket vehicle Skylark 7 was used very successfully for the first 25 years until the motor was no longer available. The Brazilian motor VSB-30 has been used for the TEXUS programme since 2005 and will be used to launch the TEXUS 50 and 51 payloads to around 270 km altitude.

General information
Launch site    Esrange Space Center
Launch date    TEXUS 50, Launched on April 12, 2013
Technical information
Rocket type    VSB 30 rocket
Nominal diameter    557 mm
Total weight TEXUS 50    2666 kg
 Total weight TEXUS 51    2654,4 kg
Apogee    ~261 km

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http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-6722/year-all/#gallery/9343

TEXUS 50 – Anniversary for Germany's sounding rocket programme

12 April 2013




Launch of TEXUS 50

It is the world's longest running rocket programme for conducting research in microgravity, and today it is celebrating an anniversary. Around 35 years after the launch of the first TEXUS mission in December 1977, the 50th TEXUS rocket was successfully launched into space from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden on 12 April 2013 at 06:25 CEST. The flight lasted 20 minutes, with six minutes of microgravity. A parachute then returned the scientific payload to the ground.  

The German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) sounding rocket carried four German biology and materials research experiments to an altitude of 261 kilometres. The VSB-30 rocket was powered during its initial climb, which lasted a little over 30 seconds, and then continued its journey in free flight.

"The main payload on board the TEXUS 50 mission is the EML electromagnetic levitation facility developed in Germany," reports Otfried Joop, TEXUS project manager at the DLR Space Administration, adding: "It is being used by researchers at the DLR Institute of Material Physics in Space to conduct two experiments in which they can investigate the thermophysical properties and solidification behaviour of metal alloys, which are of great interest to industry. The scientists are investigating a nickel-zirconium alloy, as well as an aluminium-nickel compound that is used in aviation and other transport systems." Thanks to the TEXUS flight, the Cologne-based DLR researchers are acquiring highly accurate data for computer simulations that form part of modern industrial manufacturing processes.

At the University of Marburg, scientists want to use fungal sporophores to investigate the initial reactions of an organism to changes in gravity. How are these sensed and how quickly does the fungus react to the change in gravity and to microgravity? "The relatively long period the rocket spends in microgravity, and a built-in precision centrifuge, should enable the scientists to measure the kinetics and threshold value – that is, the minimum amount of gravity that the fungus needs to respond – for the first time," explains Joop.

In the second biological experiment on TEXUS 50, scientists from the University of Freiburg want to identify the genes and gene products (messenger RNA) that play a role in the perception and processing of gravity in plants. To do this, the flight is carrying seedlings of Arabidopsis Thaliana, a plant that has been used by researchers as a model organism since the 1940s due to its relatively simple genetic structure. "After the flight, the TEXUS seedlings will be compared to plants that remained on the ground," says Otfried Joop in summary. Among other things, the researchers will be looking for answers to the question of which classes of gene are activated or deactivated by changes in gravity.

Double campaign – two rockets in one week

"TEXUS 50/51 is also the first German double campaign since 1981," says Joop. One week after the anniversary mission, TEXUS 51 will be ready for launch on 19 April 2013 with four more experiments by German scientists:

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (Fraunhofer IISB) in Erlangen, the University of Freiburg and the University of Bayreuth have been studying the incorporation of particles during directional solidification of silicon crystals for photovoltaic cells, as part of the ParSiWal experiment. This is intended to clarify the mechanisms by which harmful silicon carbide particles are integrated into silicon crystals during the crystallisation process. The presence of silicon carbide (SiC) particles during the industrial production of silicon for photovoltaic cells hinders the mechanical processing of the product and reduces the efficiency of the finished solar cells. It is therefore important to prevent the integration of SiC particles into the silicon crystal. The particles are formed during crystallisation in a silicon melt that is contaminated with carbon. Gravity significantly influences the flow of the melt and causes the SiC particles to sink, as they are denser than silicon. In space, these gravity-induced effects are eliminated. This significantly reduces the complexity of the processes and simplifies their physical description. The results should ultimately contribute to an improvement in the quality and efficiency of solar cells.

The FOKUS experiment run by the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich should prove that the technology of a frequency comb is mature enough for applications in spaceflight. At the core of a frequency comb is a pulsed laser that is used to measure optical frequencies. This technology will be used in precision spectroscopy, for example when investigating trace gases in the atmosphere, in astrophysics, or in new, extremely precise atomic clocks for research missions or navigation. The frequency comb is a laser that was developed by the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in 1999. Theodor W. Hänsch shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of this work.

The SITI-2 medical and biological experiment, conducted by a group of scientists at the University of Magdeburg, should explain the mechanisms that lead to problems with the human immune system in microgravity – some astronauts suffer greatly from infections during long stays in space. For this reason, the TEXUS 51 flight will carry cell cultures in which the activity of genes in immune systems are set to be investigated using modern DNA chip technology. If the scientists confirm their suspicion that certain molecules in the cell membrane are responsible for the problems caused by microgravity, these results might lead to new approaches in the fight against long-term illnesses.

Finally, in the TRACE-3 material science experiment, run by the ACCESS research centre in Aachen, processes and structures that are important for the solidification of metal alloys will be analysed. The scientists will monitor this in, for example, a mixture of organic substances that solidifies like a liquid metal. The solidification process can then be observed directly, as the alloy is transparent. The data acquired should improve industrial casting processes.

Since 1977, throughout the TEXUS programme, some 300 scientific experiments have been carried out, 70 percent of these under contract to DLR, and around 30 percent under collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). "This means that, in collaboration with other DLR flight facilities, TEXUS is an essential component for fundamental research in microgravity, and hence also for the preparation of long-term space experiments, possibly on the International Space Station," said Otfried Joop, summing up the programme.

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The TEXUS 51 campaign has been cancelled due to technical reasons:
http://www.ssc.se/news-activities/all-news-archives/2013/texus-51-campaign-cancelled

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Lewis007 пишет:

It's a busy time in sounding rocket land.
Three NASA rockets were launched during the past two weeks; a Black Brant IX (mission SLICE) on April 21, another Black Brant IX (mission EUNIS) on April 23, with both launches from White Sands.

On May 1, a Terrier Orion (mission MOSC) was launched from Roi-Namur, Marshall Islands. MOSC released a Samarium vapor creating a red cloud of charged particles in the ionosphere. Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory studied the cloud as it dispersed and its impact on radio transmissions sent from multiple locations.

Source: Wallops facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NASAWFF

More info:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/slice.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/eunis.html

Photo set for EUNIS:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_goddard/sets/72157633255000650/

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/evex.html
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.618564764840295.1073741836.191575794205863&type=1

EVEX launch-May 7-Marshall Islands

The Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX) was successfully conducted during early morning hours May 7 from Roi Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands. A NASA Terrier-Oriole sounding rocket was launched at 3:39 a.m. EDT followed by the launch of a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket 90 seconds later. Preliminary indications are that both rockets released their vapor clouds of lithium or trimethyl aluminum, which were observed from various locations in the area, and all science instruments on the rockets worked as planned. More information on EVEX can be found at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/evex.html These were the second and third rockets of four planned for launch during this year's campaign in the Marshall Islands. The first and fourth rockets are supporting the Metal Oxide Space Cloud experiment (MOSC), which is studying radio frequency propagation. Photos by John Grant/NASA.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/news/kwajpost2013.html

Marshall Islands Sounding Rocket Campaign Completed
05.09.13
 
A NASA sounding rocket launches from the Marshall Islands.
A NASA Terrier-Improved Orion leaves the launch pad on Roi Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands on May 9 (eastern time). This was the final rocket of four launches from the Marshall Islands site. Photo: NASA/John Grant

The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket at 3:23 a.m. EDT, May 9, from Roi Namur, Republic of the Marshall Island, brought to an end a very successful campaign studying ionospheric activity and its impact on radio, communication and navigation signals.

The final launch was for the Metal Oxide Space Cloud Experiment (MOSC). The rocket flew to more than 117 miles altitude and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.

At approximately 113 miles altitude the payload released a Samarium vapor cloud, which was seen at several observation sites in the neighboring islands. This allowed researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory to study the cloud as it dispersed and its impact on radio transmissions.

In all, a total of 4 rockets were launched during the campaign. Two of the rockets were part of the MOSC experiment. The other two rockets were for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment or EVEX which looked at post-sunset solar storms.

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Lewis007 пишет:

Rexus-13 (an Improved Orion sounding rocket) was launched from Kiruna at 06:00 local time on May 9, after a one-day weather delay.
Onboard were four student experiments: CERESS, MUSCAT, StrathSat-R and SOLAR.



Also check out the video of the Space Sailors experiment on Rexus-14 (the action starts 60 seconds into the video).

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281.msg1051335#msg1051335

Lewis007 пишет:

Some more details provided by Esrange:
The student rocket REXUS 13 was launched from Esrange Space Center on May 9, at 04.00 UTC.

It reached an altitude of 83.1 kilometers and landed after 8 minutes of flight 40 km north of Esrange Space Center.
http://www.ssc.se/news-activities/all-news-archives/2013/rexus-13-launched-from-esrange-space-center

Also check out this video posted by the Muscat team of the four so-called FFUs being ejected from the rocket during the flight.

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NASA successfully launched the Far-Ultraviolet Off Rowland Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Science data was obtained and an assessment of the data is underway. The payload was recovered. FORTIS was launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket and flew to an altitude of approximately 174 miles.

Source: NASA Wallops Facebook.
More info:
http://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/v10n1/it-really-is-rocket-science/
http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2012/october/building-a-rocket-from-scratch

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Liss пишет:
Х-ха! Китайская АН объявила, что это был пуск высотной ракеты научного назначения.

 http://www.cas.ac.cn/ky/kyjz/201305/t20130514_3839206.shtml

5月13日21时左右，我国科学家再次成功进行高空科学探测试验。本次试验利用高空探空火箭，通过朗缪尔探针、高能粒子探测器、磁强计和钡粉释放实验装置等多种科学探测有效载荷，对电离层、近地空间的高能粒子和磁场强度与结构进行了原位探测。
探空火箭是进行空间探测和科学试验的有效探测工具。利用探空火箭可以在高度方向探测大气各层结构成分和参数，研究电离层、地磁、宇宙线、太阳紫外线和X射线、陨尘等多种日-地物理现象。
此次试验在西昌卫星发射中心进行。经中科院国家空间科学中心初步分析表明，实验已获得了不同高度上空间环境垂直分布的第一手科学数据，达到了预期目的，为我国进一步开展自主空间环境监测、保障空间活动安全积累了宝贵的数据。

Гуглоперевод первого абзаца:

21 o'clock on May 13, 2011, Chinese scientists have once again successfully test of high-altitude scientific exploration. This experiment the use of high-altitude sounding rockets, Langmuir probe, energetic particle detectors, magnetometers and barium powder release of experimental apparatus and other payload of scientific exploration, the ionosphere, the high-energy particles and magnetic fields of the near-Earth space strength and structure of the in situ detection.

В третьем абзаце сказано, что все научные задачи выполнены.
Коллеги на NSF иронизируют: типа, через несколько дней мы услышим, как огромная зондирующая ракета будет запущена в южную часть Тихого океана с отделением многочисленных научных зондов, собирающих ценную информацию о верхней атмосфере.

Параллельные темы:
 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=31898.0
 http://bbs.9ifly.cn/thread-10614-1-1.html
 http://lt.cjdby.net/thread-1614118-1-1.html

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input~2 пишет:
Kunpeng-7 (鲲鹏七号- large bird 7) is the name of the launch vehicle developped by CASIC for this launch according to Xinhua
AFAIU, Kunpeng-1 was a rain rocket which reached an apogee of 196.5 km on May 7, 2011 "setting a sounding rocket altitude record" (source in Chinese)

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/35533final-flight-of-tiny-astrophysics-probe-slated-for-june-4#.UaZbKdiBXTo

Final Flight of Tiny Astrophysics Probe Slated for June 4
  By Brian Berger | May. 29, 2013


The higher altitude and longer observation time made possible by the Black Brant (above) comes at a price: CIBER is expected to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean about 640 kilometers off the Virginia coast and will not be recovered. Credit: NASA photo
 
 WASHINGTON ­— A tiny astrophysics probe is slated to make its fourth and final suborbital flight June 4 when it lifts off aboard a Black Brant 12 sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, NASA announced May 29.
The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER), a compact astrophysics observatory designed by Jamie Bock of the California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., has been launched, recovered and recalibrated for reflight three times since 2009. All three of those launches took place at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., and involved smaller sounding rockets than the Black Brant 12 slated for next week's attempt. But the higher altitude and longer observation time made possible by the Black Brant comes at a price: CIBER is expected to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean about 640 kilometers off the Virginia coast and will not be recovered.
The night time launch — live coverage begins at 10 p.m. EDT on NASA's Ustream channel — may be visible to residents in the Mid-Atlantic region, NASA said. The back up launch dates are June 5-10.

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Rocket Launches from Wallops Flight Facility

A NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket streaks into the night sky following its launch at 11:05 p.m. EDT on June 5, 2013 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket carried the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) to an altitude of approximately 358 miles above the Atlantic Ocean by the four-stage rocket. The launch, seen here with multiple stages firing off, was reportedly seen from as far away as central New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern North Carolina. With CIBER, scientists are studying when the first stars and galaxies formed in the universe and how brightly they burned their nuclear fuel.

 Image Credit: NASA/Jamie Adkins



http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2525.html

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http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/06/05/up-aerospace-to-launch-experiments-at-spaceport-america-on-june-21/#more-48836

UP Aerospace to Launch Experiments at Spaceport America on June 21
             
Posted by Doug Messier
 
on June 5, 2013, at 1:34 pm in News
                                                        
 LAS CRUCES, NM (NMSA PR) — The New Mexico Spaceport Authority is excited to host a NASA Flight Opportunities Program launch conducted by UP Aerospace, Inc., at the Spaceport America Vertical Launch Complex on Friday, June 21. This will be the first sub-orbital NASA Flight Opportunities Program launch, and the 19th overall launch from Spaceport America.
The sub-orbital sounding rocket launch is part of the NASA Flight Opportunities Program, which is designed to provide suborbital payload launch opportunities for NASA and other government agencies, as well as for educational institutions and the private sector.
Some of the Flight Opportunities payload customers for this launch aboard the SpaceLoft (SL-7) rocket include: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Defense (DOD), NASA, Celestis, Inc. and various schools.
"We are very excited to have student payloads on this NASA Flight Opportunities Program launch," said New Mexico Spaceport Authority Executive Director Christine Anderson. "Studying science and math in a classroom setting is very important but having the opportunity to see science and math-based experiments take flight is really inspiring."
Some of the student payload experiments are part of the NASA/New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) Summer of Innovation Launch and Learn Program. Participating schools include: La Academia de Delores Huerta Charter Middle School of Las Cruces, NM; Cobre High School of Silver City, NM; Camino Real Middle School of Las Cruces, NM; and Hot Springs High School of Truth or Consequences, NM. Other payloads on board were developed by New Mexico State University of Las Cruces, NM, and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology of Socorro, NM.
NMSGC is staging a private event for the students in conjunction with the UP Aerospace Launch. Please visit the http://www.launchnm.com for further information.
ABOUT SPACEPORT AMERICA:
Spaceport America is the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world. The launch complex, situated on 18,000 acres adjacent to the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, has been providing commercial vertical launch services since 2006. Spaceport America has hosted 18 vertical launches thus far. The New Mexico Spaceport Authority continues to work closely with its tenants, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX, and its other flight customers in support of the commercial space industry.

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20 июня 2013 года в 09:30 UTC с ракетного полигона на о Уоллопс, шт. Вирджиния, специалистами американского аэрокосмического ведомства в рамках образовательной программы NASA осуществлен пуск геофизической ракеты Terrier Imp. Orion (полетное задание NASA 40.106UO). Максимальная высота подъема ракеты составила 118 км.

University students and their instructors are now rocket scientists! A NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying experiments developed by students from across the nation successfully launched this morning at 5:30 a.m. EDT from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Participants are from in the RockOn and RockSat-C programs.

Видео - http://wtvr.com/2013/06/20/nasa-launches-a-student-research-rocket-from-wallops-this-morning/