{"id":8191,"date":"2014-06-26T21:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2014-06-26T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:19:53","slug":"rockon-sounding-rocket-flies-student-payloads-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8191","title":{"rendered":"RockOn! sounding rocket flies student payloads to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted recently about the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8122\" target=\"_d\">rocket week at NASA Wallops<\/a>\u00a0involving over 60 college students and faculty who were learning to build and prepare science payloads for rocket flights. Today their experiments flew successfully on a sounding rocket.\u00a0There will be another launch on Saturday (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-tv-wallops\" target=\"_blank\">webcast here<\/a>). \u00a0Here is a report from NASA:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/rocket-week-launches-at-nasas-wallops-flight-facility\/\" target=\"_d\">RockOn Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/cp7t4443g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/673xvariable_height\/public\/cp7t4443g.jpg?itok=gCsr0IAY\" alt=\"The RockOn sounding rocket launches successfully.\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The sounding rocket carrying the RockOn student-built <\/em><br \/>\n<em>payloads launches from the Wallops Flight Facility.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Image Credit: NASA\/G. Qian<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The RockOn Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket containing multiple student-built experiments launched successfully at 7:21 a.m. EDT on June 26, 2014 from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The payload was recovered and has been returned to Wallops.\u00a0 The students will conduct their preliminary analysis on their experiments later this afternoon. According to the preliminary information, the payload flew to an altitude of 73.3 miles and landed via parachute 43.9 miles from Wallops Island in the Atlantic Ocean 12.16 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>The next launch from Wallops will be a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket carrying the SubTec-6 payload between 4 and 5 a.m., Saturday, June 28.\u00a0 Backup launch days run through July 2. More information on the SucTec-6 mission is available at:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #273da2 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wallops\" target=\"_blank\">www.nasa.gov\/wallops<\/a>.\u00a0 Ustream coverage of the mission will begin at 3:30 a.m. on the Wallops Ustream site at\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #273da2 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-tv-wallops\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-tv-wallops<\/a><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Two video views of today&#8217;s launch:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4oEHZF5K-3A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5UN36KG5H_s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted recently about the \u00a0rocket week at NASA Wallops\u00a0involving over 60 college students and faculty who were learning to build and prepare science payloads for rocket flights. Today their experiments flew successfully on a sounding rocket.\u00a0There will be another launch on Saturday (webcast here). \u00a0Here is a report from NASA: RockOn Sounding Rocket Launches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RockOn! sounding rocket flies student payloads to space<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-rockets","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-287","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2781,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2781","url_meta":{"origin":8191,"position":0},"title":"Rocket Week at NASA Wallops &#8211; students\/educator build payloads for sounding rockets","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from NASA Wallops: Students and Teachers Become Rocket Scientists at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility WASHINGTON -- More than 120 students and educators will delve into the world of rocket science June 15-21 during Rocket Week at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. 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