Lawsuit over eclipse: New York inmates say a prison lockdown for solar eclipse violates religious freedom NASA is using spacecraft called sounding rockets that are equipped with scientific ...

Last week, the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) announced Midland as this year’s host city for the competition ...

During each liftoff and landing, several factors are in play affecting the intensity and duration of each sonic boom.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, ... [+] carrying NASA’s Goddard ...

Three NASA sounding rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range as early as Tuesday to learn more about three types of aurora — black, flickering and fast-pulsating. The launch ...

The space agency has confirmed that NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will provide a livestream, with commentary, of the three sounding rocket launches. The livestream will begin at 2: ...

In the early morning hours of January 25, a team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from Norway’s Andoya Rocket Range, a launch site off ...

The missions are part of NASA’s Sounding Rockets program, which launches small rockets containing scientific instruments into space. These rockets usually spend a brief period of time in space (5 to ...