The institute uses sounding rockets for probing the middle atmosphere from 50 to 150 kilometres with sub-orbital flights. Because the density of air is either too low or too high there, these ...

NASA will launch three sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, to study how Earth's upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of the planet.

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The REXUS sounding rocket will be launched from the European spaceport in Sweden between March 10 and 15, 2025. Once again, two ferrofluid experiments by students from the University of Stuttgart ...