ATREX - Sounding Rockets
Share YOUR still images and videos from the launch in our ATREX Flickr Group: www.flickr.com/groups/atrex/
NASA plans to launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX), a heliophysics mission, will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth.
The rockets being used for the ATREX mission are two Terrier-Improved Orions (left), one Terrier-Oriole (center) and two Terrier-Improved Malemutes (right).
The ATREX launches will take place between March 14 and April 4. The five rockets will release a chemical tracer that will form milky, white tracer clouds that allow scientists and the public to "see" the winds in space.
ATREX launch info: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch...
Credit: NASA/Wallops
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ATREX - Sounding Rockets
Share YOUR still images and videos from the launch in our ATREX Flickr Group: www.flickr.com/groups/atrex/
NASA plans to launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX), a heliophysics mission, will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth.
The rockets being used for the ATREX mission are two Terrier-Improved Orions (left), one Terrier-Oriole (center) and two Terrier-Improved Malemutes (right).
The ATREX launches will take place between March 14 and April 4. The five rockets will release a chemical tracer that will form milky, white tracer clouds that allow scientists and the public to "see" the winds in space.
ATREX launch info: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch...
Credit: NASA/Wallops
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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