Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket launches RockSat-X payload

2,180 views · Published 13 August 2017 · 2:24 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: SciNews · 2017 · Science & Technology

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A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket launched the RockSat-X student project, experiments built by students through the RockSat-X program, on 13 August 2017, at 09:30 UTC (05:30 EDT), from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. RockSat-X is the most advance of NASA’s three-phase sounding rocket program for students.  The RockOn launches are at the entry level, then progress to the intermedia level RockSat-C missions and then RockSat-X. 
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