sounding rocket
noun
: a rocket used especially to obtain information concerning atmospheric conditions at various altitudes
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Three sounding rockets are set to lift off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia before, during and after the eclipse to measure the impact of the sun on Earth’s upper atmosphere, known as the ionosphere.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
Solar eclipse experiment:Here's why NASA is launching 3 sounding rockets into space during the total solar eclipse
What is the path of totality?
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
The Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Orbiter will soon be accompanied by other solar-observing spacecraft and sounding rockets, which will observe the sun from Earth's atmosphere.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
So, aboard a sounding rocket, the team launched a miniaturized chip filled with rubidium-87 atoms.
—Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
The test started with the launch of a Black Brant IX sounding rocket; less than two minutes after launch, the payload carrying the parachute separated from the rocket and began to fall back to Earth.
—Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2019
Engineers working with the MAIUS-1 experiment put payloads into the sounding rocket.
—Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
In January 1995, Norwegian and US scientists launched a Black Brant-sounding rocket from Andøya.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
PLD Space has advertised the Miura 1 as a sounding rocket that can carry 100 kilograms to an altitude of 150 kilometers, generating up to four minutes of microgravity time.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2022
Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
Solar eclipse experiment:Here's why NASA is launching 3 sounding rockets into space during the total solar eclipse
What is the path of totality?
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
The Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Orbiter will soon be accompanied by other solar-observing spacecraft and sounding rockets, which will observe the sun from Earth's atmosphere.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
So, aboard a sounding rocket, the team launched a miniaturized chip filled with rubidium-87 atoms.
—Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
The test started with the launch of a Black Brant IX sounding rocket; less than two minutes after launch, the payload carrying the parachute separated from the rocket and began to fall back to Earth.
—Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2019
Engineers working with the MAIUS-1 experiment put payloads into the sounding rocket.
—Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
In January 1995, Norwegian and US scientists launched a Black Brant-sounding rocket from Andøya.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
PLD Space has advertised the Miura 1 as a sounding rocket that can carry 100 kilograms to an altitude of 150 kilometers, generating up to four minutes of microgravity time.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2022
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