A Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket was successfully launched at 7:05 a.m. EST, March 7, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The rocket carried three space technology development projects.
A Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket was successfully launched at 7:05 a.m. EST, March 7, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The rocket carried three space technology development projects.
The payload with the projects flew to an apogee of more than 99 miles as planned. The payload has been recovered and will be returned to Wallops today. Engineers will then be able to more closely analyze the results from their instruments.
A replay of the launch is available on the Wallops Ustream channel.
The next launch currently scheduled from Wallops is a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying the RockOn/RockSat-C payload at 6 a.m. June 23.
Keith Koehler
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginiakeith.a.koehler@nasa.gov