RockOn! / RockSat 2009 Launch

Nearly 100 university faculty, staff, and students from 21 states saw their experiments rise into the sky at 5:30 a.m. on the morning of June 26, 2009 with the successful launch of a NASA suborbital sounding rocket from NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The week prior to the launch, participants prepared their scientific payloads during an intensive hands-on workshop.

The two-stage Terrier-Orion sounding rocket carried the experiments to an altitude of 73 miles, and as planned, dropped back to the Earth landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The payloads were recovered and the participants successfully retrieved data from their experiments.

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