RockSat-X payload succesfully launched

A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket carrying the RockSat-X payload was successfully launched on Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

The rocket, officially launched at 7:01 a.m., carried experiments developed by undergraduate students from the Universities of Colorado, Northwest Nazarene, Puerto Rico; Nebraska and Virginia Tech.

The experiments were developed through the RockSat-X program, which is a collaboration with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

RockSat-X is a part of a multi-phase NASA program that provides flight experiences for community college and university students to improve their skills in developing experiments and payloads for spaceflight.

The launch was initially scheduled for March; however, poor weather and predicted high seas prevented multiple attempts.