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NASA Plans to Launch Five Rockets over 5 Minutes Tonight

Launch will be visible across two states

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NASA Plans to Launch Five Rockets over 5 Minutes Tonight
 
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NASA plans to launch a series of five rockets that are the core of its Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment. All five of these rockets will liftoff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia...

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Kansas City team wins international awards in NASA Space Apps Challenge

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The Sol weather app was honored by NASA as the Best Use of Data in the International Space Apps Challenge. (PRNewsFoto/Ingenology) KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Two mobile applications created by a team of Kansas City digital profes ...
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EMCORE Allies With ATK on "Green Fuel" Mission for NASA

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Editor's note: The new AF-M315E propellant is being developed and tested by GenCorp subsidiary Aerojet. A previous version of this story stated otherwise. The Fool regrets the error. Following on ATK's announcement of a suc ...
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NASA Inspects Ion Engine Prototype For Asteroid-Hauling Rocket

Source: Popular Science

A look at possible propulsion for NASA's plan to bring an asteroid home for study. Ion Propulsion Thruster An ion propulsion thruster, developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that's being considered for NASA's Asteroid Retrieval Initiativ ...
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Commercial human ventures planned for the moon: NASA study

Source: Winnipeg Sun

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows. The study by Bigelo ...
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NASA Statement on Space Technology Meetings in Europe

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RELEASE : 13-150 WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA's associate administrator for space technology, Michael Gazarik, about his meetings this week in Europe to discuss potential cooperation on development of space technologi ...
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Most recently the scientists at NASA have debunked the global warming theory with their own take on this issue. They say that CO2 actually cools the earth. http://www.naturalnews.com/040448_solar_radiation_global_w ...
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Virginia Students Build Disorientation Chair for NASA

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HAMPTON, Va.âBrandon Hogan smiled broadly on Thursday as he sat in a chair at NASA’s Langley Research Center that spun around and around, intentionally making himself dizzy. But the high school senior in blue jeans and a green T-shirt ...
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Webster Students to Learn from NASA Engineer

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High Performance Green Propulsion (HPGP) Thruster Technology Tested By NASA

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The first U.S.-based testing of the High Performance Green Propulsion (HPGP) thruster technology for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has been completed by ATK. The testing was conducted at ATK Defense G ...
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Private spaceflight heads to moon as NASA goes deep

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Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.While NASA has no plans to return humans to the lunar surface anytime soon, p ...
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NASA Plans to Launch Five Rockets over 5 Minutes Tonight

NASA plans to launch a series of five rockets that are the core of its Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment. All five of these rockets will liftoff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and will be suborbital rockets. Each of the rockets will climb to between 50 and 90 miles in the atmosphere where they were release chemical markers and then fall back into the ocean.

The point of this experiment is to help NASA determine why a stream of air described as and high altitude jet stream at 60 to 65 miles above the Earth's surface moves so quickly. Predictions say that the air should only move at about 6mph or so. The winds commonly move at over 200 mph and occasionally gust to over 300 mph within the zone. The rocket liftoffs will be visible for many miles around the launch site, as will the chemical tracers so sky watchers in the area want to keep an eye out.

 

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