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Sounding rocket launch schedule8/7/2023 ![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. ![]() The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Video courtesy of Equatorial Launch Australia There are still bright patches of unknown origin these three launch missions seek to explain and or identify, the agency said. NASA said scientists and astronomers believe X-ray patches come from diffuse, a hot gas heated by supernovae, a brilliant eruption of dying stars. ![]() “We’ve been waiting a long time for this expedition to Australia.” “It covers a big part of the galaxy, but we needed to be in the Southern Hemisphere to see that of the sky,” University of Wisconsin, Madison astronomer Dan McCammon said in a NASA news release. The next flight’s objective will be to target an area of X-ray light partially visible from the Northern Hemisphere. Still, there are several bright patches of unknown sources. Scientists have now mapped the X-ray sky in ever-finer detail with the help of other NASA X-ray missions, the agency said. The XQC is designed to have 50 times better energy resolution than before, according to NASA. X-ray space telescopes capture images uniquely they are able to map the sky by observing a patch of light. The science instrument collection of data was deemed a success by experts close to the launch, and NASA said the team will recover the science instrument itself and rocket motors for further analysis. It flew to an altitude of 203 miles (237 kilometers) before landing by parachute southwest of the launch site. The first launch of the series carried the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter, XQC, a science experiment provided by the University of Wisconsin. There are two remaining science mission launches left in this series the next is scheduled to occur from the facility at 6:54 a.m. It was Australia’s first commercial launch as well as NASA’s first launch from a commercial launch facility outside of the United States. The launch atop a Black Brant IX suborbital rocket took place at 10:29 a.m. Credit: NASAĮarlier this week, the first of three science missions launching atop a NASA sounding rocket left Earth from the Arnhem Space Center in the Northern Territory of Australia. A Black Brant IX sounding rocket launched the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter experiment for NASA from the Arnhem Space Center in Australia. ![]()
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