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NASA’s RockOn Student Mission to Launch June 26–29 From Virginia

A sounding rocket carrying dozens of student and faculty experiments will launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs. The annual student mission, “RockOn,” is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket. The launch window for the mission is 5:30–9:30 a.m. EDT, Thursday June 26 through Sunday June 29.

For local launch enthusiasts, the Wallops Visitor Center’s launch viewing area will open at 5 a.m. for a launch viewing event. The launch viewing area features five sets of bleachers along the marsh with a clear view of the launch pad and range control audio playing on loud speakers across the grounds. The launch may be visible across the Chesapeake region. For those outside the local and regional viewing area, a livestream of the mission will begin 15 minutes before launch on the Wallops YouTube channel. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook page.

A series of circles show areas in the United States from where a sounding rocket launch may be viewed at different times during flight.
These circular areas show where and when people may see the rocket launch in the sky, depending on cloud cover. The different colored sections indicate the time (in seconds) after liftoff that the sounding rocket may be visible.
NASA/Christian Billie

RockOn is part of NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program that is conducted at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility, which is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA’s Heliophysics Division manages the sounding rocket program for the agency.

By Amy Barra
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia

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