Wallops Flight Facility’s Sounding Rocket Program Office is hard at work testing payload systems in preparation for its January-February 2017 launch campaign from Poker Flat Research Range, located north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Pictured here, Terri Snyder, sounding rocket technician, monitors attitude control system flight maneuvers on an air-bearing during testing operations at Wallops’ Sounding Rocket Fabrication, Test and Evaluation shop. There are six sounding rockets scheduled to launch between January and February 2017 from Poker Flat. NASA/Berit Bland
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