Sounding Rocket Launch
RockOn Launch
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket for the RockOn mission on Thursday, Aug. 17, with a window of 10:00-14:00 UTC The rockets will carry multiple student experiments to suborbital space.
The mission had been postponed following an anomaly that occurred on the RockSat-X student sounding rocket launch on Wednesday, Aug. 16. Initial investigation shows that there was an issue with the RockSat-X second stage. The RockOn launch vehicle uses a different second stage, which has been cleared for flight.
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LL2 • Aug. 17, 2023, 9:46 a.m.
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