NASA Wallops - Terrier Improved Orion Suborbital Rocket Launch - Drexel University RockSat!

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA -- The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket was successfully conducted at 6:17 a.m. EDT today from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch was carrying 17 experiments developed by university instructors and students from across the United States.

The goal of Drexel RockSat 2011 was to experimentally determine the feasibility of a despun platform under high acceleration and turbulence, driven by a low power system. This platform provides a stable platform with respect to the exterior environment to accommodate any future experiments that require a constant frame of reference in an ascending rocket or object. The RockOn Terrier Orion rocket provides a very suitable platform for such feasibility study.

Team : Dr. Jin Kang, Swapnil Mengawade, Swati Maini, Joe Mozloom, Linda McLaughlin, Eric Marz.

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[firozerakib]

woohoo \m/ whoever said "sky is the limit" was dead-wrong!!!

[veenamaini]

wao......great sight

[riddhimanyadav]

Awesome Shit!!!