Суборбитальные пуски (научные и экспериментальные)

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bluShift Aerospace Stardust 1.0 Launch
  SciNews
bluShift Aerospace launched the company's first prototype sounding rocket Stardust 1.0 (Stardust Generation One) on a low-altitude demo launch from the Loring Commerce Centre in Limestone, Maine, on 31 January 2021, at 20:04 UTC (15:04 EST). bluShift Aerospace is developing a line of rockets powered by bio-derived fuels to launch small satellites into space: Stardust Gen. 1, Stardust Gen. 2, Starless Rogue and Red Dwarf.
Credit: bluShift Aerospace

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http://russian.news.cn/2021-02/06/c_139725916.htm

Частная китайская компания запустила "умную" суборбитальную ракету
2021-02-06 13:46:20丨Russian.News.Cn
Чунцин, 6 февраля /Синьхуа/ -- Новая "умная" суборбитальная ракета, разработанная частной китайской компанией, была успешно запущена со стартовой площадки на северо-западе Китая в пятницу, сообщила компания OneSpace Technology Group Co.
Запуск ракеты под названием "Chongqing Liangjiang Star" OS-X6B с общей длиной 9,4 метра состоялся в 17:05 пятницы. Время ее полета составило около 580 секунд, а максимальная высота полета достигла около 300 км, сообщили в компании.
По данным OneSpace, этот запуск знаменует собой первый случай, когда частная китайская ракетная компания реализовала управляемый полет на повторный вход в атмосферу, а также исследовала возможности по управлению космическим полетом с человеком в контуре обратной связи и другие параметры.
Также было завершено тестирование ряда ключевых технологий и было получено большое количество данных о реальных условиях полета.
Компания OneSpace, которая была основана в 2015 году со штаб-квартирой в Пекине, является первой в Китае частной компанией, имеющей лицензию на разработку ракет-носителей, а ее производственная база расположена в городе центрального подчинения Чунцин на юго-западе Китая.

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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/three-stage-rocket-launches-from-nasa-s-wallops-flight-facility

Three-stage Rocket Launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility


A three-stage suborbital sounding rocket was launched in the afternoon on March 3, 2021, for the Department of Defense from NASA's launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The launch was to study ionization in space just beyond the reaches of Earth's atmosphere.
After flying to an altitude of several hundred miles and about 500 miles off-shore, the rocket's payload released a small quantity of vapor into the near-vacuum of space. There is no danger to public health or the Earth's environment from the vapor release.
Keith Koehler
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

О типе ракеты не сообщается!

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К #783
https://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/79054/

Пуск геофизической ракеты в США
3 марта с полигона на о. Уоллопс (шт. Вирджиния, США) осуществлен пуск геофизической ракеты Terrier-Terrier-Oriole. Основной задачей полета являлось исследование ионосферы. Максимальная высота подъема ракеты составила около 300 км.
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https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2021/press-release/nasa-wallops-may-8-rocket-launch-visible-in-eastern-united-states

May 6, 2021
NASA Wallops Rocket Launch Visible in Eastern United States
UPDATE 5/8: The launch of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload has been postponed to no earlier than 8:03 p.m., Sunday, May 9.  The launch has been postponed due to upper level winds not being within the required limits for a safe launch. The launch window for Sunday runs until 8:43 p.m.

A mission to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launching May 8, 2021, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia may provide a brief light show for residents of the eastern United States and Bermuda.

The mission is scheduled for no earlier than 8:02 p.m. EDT with a 40-minute launch window, Saturday, May 8. Backup launch days run through May 16. The launch may be visible, weather permitting, in much of the eastern United States from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River.

A four-stage Black Brant XII rocket will be used for the mission that includes the release of barium vapor that will form two green-violet clouds that may be visible for about 30 seconds. The barium vapor is not harmful to the environment or public health

The mission, called the KiNETic-scale energy and momentum transport eXperiment, or KiNet-X, is designed to study a very fundamental problem in space plasmas, namely, how are energy and momentum transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected? 

The vapor will be released approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds to around 10 minutes after launch at about 217-249 miles altitude over the Atlantic Ocean and 540-560 miles downrange from Wallops and just north of Bermuda.

Immediately after release of the vapor, the spherical clouds are a mixture of green and violet, but that phase only lasts about 30 seconds when the un-ionized component of the cloud has diffused away. After exposure to sunlight the vapor clouds quickly ionize and take on a violet color.

The ionized portion of the cloud becomes tied to the magnetic field lines and diffuses parallel to the field lines but not perpendicular to it.  In the mid-Atlantic region latitudes, the field lines are inclined by about 45 degrees to the horizontal, so the violet clouds stretch out in a slanted orientation and look more like short trails than a cloud.  Because the motion of the neutral portion of the clouds is not constrained by the magnetic field lines, they spread out more quickly and become too thin to see with the naked eye much sooner than the ionized component.

In general, the human eye does not see violet colors very well in darkness. The KiNET-X clouds will therefore be more difficult for the casual observer to see than some of the previous vapor missions launched from Wallops.

Live coverage of the mission will be available on the Wallops IBM video site (previously Ustream) beginning at 7:40 p.m. on launch day. Launch status updates can be found on the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites.
The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will not be open for launch viewing.
Header image: KiNet-X Visibility Map.

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NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
LAUNCH SCRUBBED ❗ Tonight's Black Brant XII sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload has been postponed to no earlier than Monday, May 10, at 8:04 p.m. The launch has been postponed due to upper level winds not being within the required limits for a safe launch.

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NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
LAUNCH UPDATE Rocket Weather is looking better for tonight's launch attempt. The launch window will open at 8:04 p.m. EDT and stay open for 40 minutes. We have a 60% chance of favorable cloud cover conditions for the camera sites at Wallops and Bermuda.

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NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
LAUNCH SCRUBBED ❗ Tonight's Black Brant XII sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload has been postponed to no earlier than Tuesday, May 11, at 8:05 p.m. The launch has been postponed due to upper level winds not being within the required limits for a safe launch.

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Dakota  @ItsAstroKota
Good view of the sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload

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NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
LAUNCH SCRUBBED ❗ Tonight's launch of the KiNET-X sounding rocket has been scrubbed due to cloudy skies in Bermuda and Wallops. The next launch opportunity will be no earlier than May 12, at 8:06 p.m. EDT. Backup days run through May 16.

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https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1392608689685663748

NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
LAUNCH UPDATE❗ The Black Brant XII launch scheduled for May 12 has been postponed to provide time for inspection of the rocket after the vehicle came in contact with a launcher support during today's preparations. The next launch opportunity is NET 8:02 pm ET, Friday, May 14.

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NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
First photos are in! Star-struck
A Black Brant XII carrying the KiNET-X payload launched from Wallops Flight Facility on May 16, 2021, at 8:44 p.m. EDT. The mission released vapor tracers to explore energy transfer in space.

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NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
LIFTOFF ❗A Black Brant XII carrying the KiNET-X mission launched at 8:36 pm ET. The mission is releasing vapor tracers 9-10 minutes after launch at about 217-249 miles altitude over the Atlantic Ocean and 540-560 miles downrange from Wallops, just north of Bermuda.
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Correction: Launched at 8:44 p.m. EDT.

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https://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/80028/

Пуск геофизической ракеты в США
17 мая 2021 г. в 04:41 UTC (07:41 ДМВ) с территории ракетного полигона на о. Уоллопс (шт. Вирджиния, США) специалистами NASA осуществлён пуск геофизической ракеты Black Brant XIIA (NASA 52.007UE). Миссия проходила в рамках эксперимента KiNET-X (Kinetic-scale Energy and momentum Transport eXperiment), подготовленного учёными из Университета штата Аляска. Руководитель группы разработчиков – доктор Питер Деламер (Peter Delamere). Пуск успешный. Максимальная высота подъёма ракеты составила 486 км. Головная часть ракеты приводнилась в Атлантическом океане.
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https://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/80050/

Пуск геофизической ракеты Black Brant-IX в США
18 мая 2021 г. в 18:30 UTC (21:30 ДМВ) с ракетного полигона Уайт-Сэндс (шт. Нью-Мексико, США) специалистами NASA был осуществлён пуск геофизической ракеты Black Brant-IX. Основной задачей полёта являлось изучение излучения Солнца в различных диапазонах. Максимальная высота подъёма ракеты составила 335 км.
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SSC - Swedish Space Corporation  @SSCspace
We have a lift-off Rocket At 07:35 LT today, the @DLR_en research rocket #MAPHEUS-11 was successfully launched from #Esrange in Sweden – carrying three material physics experiments and a world-first rocket motor combination. Camera with flash Thomas Schleuß & DLR

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Mapheus-11 launch
  SciNews
The MAPHEUS research rocket ("Materialphysikalische Experimente unter Schwerelosigkeit") is a two stage launch vehicle  is used for material physics experiments in microgravity. On 24 May 2021, at 05:35 UTC (07:35 CEST), from the at Esrange Space Center in Sweden, the MAPHEUS 11 rocket carried the nearly 250 kg scientific payload to an altitude of 216 km, providing more than 5 minutes of microgravity for the three experiments onboard: X-RISE - Measures diffusion in liquid alloys using x-ray radiography, MARS - Powder-based additive manufacturing independent of gravitational forces, SOMEX - Optical laboratory for studying granular matter.
Credit: Swedish Space Corporation(SSC)/German Aerospace Center (DLR)

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https://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/80117/

Пуск геофизической ракеты из Кируны
24 мая 2021 г. в 05:35 UTC (08:35 ДМВ) с ракетного полигона Кируна специалистами Шведской космической компании совместно с учёными Европейского космического агентства осуществлён пуск геофизической ракеты IM/IM, в головной части которой размещались приборы по программе MAPHEUS-11, предназначенные для проведения экспериментов в условиях микрогравитации. Пуск успешный. Максимальная высота подъёма ракеты превысила 216 км.
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https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/

Date: May 26, 2021
Launch Window: 9:15 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. Eastern
Mission: Terrier-Improved Malemute Suborbital Sounding Rocket
Description: Launching from our Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket will carry the Vlf trans-Ionospheric Propagation Experiment Rocket, or VIPER. VIPER will study radio waves that escape through the Earth's ionosphere impacting the environment surrounding GPS and geosynchronous satellites.

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NASA Wallops  @NASA_Wallops
We s-s-see you, VIPER!  Snake A Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket launched at 9:15 p.m. EDT, May 26, from Wallops Flight Facility carrying the VIPER experiment to study Earth's ionosphere.