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RockOn suborbital educational launch scheduled at Wallops June 21 at 5:30 A.M E.D.T. The RockOn is a Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying the students’ experiments. The rocket is 36 feet long and the payload weighs 667 pounds.
The rocket will carry 28 experiments (measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation counts) from the RockOn! Program and several experiments from nine schools in the RockSat-C program and more than 80 small cubes with experiments developed by middle school and high school students as part of the Cubes in Space program, a partnership between idoodlelearning inc. and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.
The rocket will fly the student experiments to nearly 73-miles altitude. The experiments will land via parachute in the Atlantic Ocean where they will be recovered by boat. The participants should have their experiments returned to them later in the day to begin their data analysis.
Launch will be streamed on Wallops Ustream channel https://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops
The rocket will carry 28 experiments (measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation counts) from the RockOn! Program and several experiments from nine schools in the RockSat-C program and more than 80 small cubes with experiments developed by middle school and high school students as part of the Cubes in Space program, a partnership between idoodlelearning inc. and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.
The rocket will fly the student experiments to nearly 73-miles altitude. The experiments will land via parachute in the Atlantic Ocean where they will be recovered by boat. The participants should have their experiments returned to them later in the day to begin their data analysis.
Launch will be streamed on Wallops Ustream channel https://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops
