Please read additional details below about each program.
RockOn!
Build your first sounding rocket experiment
RockOn is a hands-on workshop teaching participants how to create a sounding rocket experiment from scratch over a 5-day period and then launching it into space on the 6th day of the workshop. This is a team experience and takes place at Wallops.
The workshop is designed for college students and faculty. There are no prerequisites for all participants. Anything needed to be successful at the workshop will be taught at the workshop. Team size is 3 people (2 students and 1 faculty member). Each team builds one RockOn experiment. All experiments will fly on the rocket and into space.
The 2026 application will be launching in late 2025. Stay tuned!

RockSat
Advanced Student Flight Opportunity
RockSat is a program for students to design, build, and fly a sounding rocket experiment on a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket. Each experiment is integrated onto an aluminum deck that will be fully exposed to the space environment at apogee (150-170km) upon despin and skin ejection, providing a low-level microgravity environment to experimenters. Each experiment is provided with a power and customized timed events throughout the flight. RockSat is designed to be recovered after launch.
The 2026 application window CLOSED on September 24, 2025.

Grand cHallenge MesOsphere Student rockeT
GHOST (Grand cHallenge MesOsphere Student rockeT) is a student rocket launch in partnership with NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility (United States), Andøya Space (Norway), the RockSat-X program, and the Grand Challenge Initiative (GCI) II.
