Watch Live Tonight! NASA Rocket Launch to Spawn Artificial Clouds @ 9:04 pm ETSpace.com
By SPACE.com Staff | June 11, 2017 08:30pm ET
Update for June 12, 7 a.m. ET: Launch Tonight
Scientists and engineers at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility now aim to launch a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket tonight between 9:04 p.m. EDT and 9:19 p.m. EDT (0104-0119 GMT). You can watch all the action live here at Space.com. Coverage begins at 8:30 p.m. EDT (0030 GMT Tuesday). The launch comes after a series of delays, most recently on Sunday night (June 11) - you can see the video feed from that try above - when boats strayed into the offshore danger zone where parts of the rocket will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission, which will create glowing, artificial clouds in the night sky as part of a technology test, has launch opportunities each night this week through June 18.
Earlier:
You can also watch the liftoff, which will take place from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, at the Wallops Ustream site:
NASA-TV Wallops on USTREAM: NASA Wallops Flight Facility . ScienceIf you live near the Wallops Island area in Virginia and would like to watch the sounding rocket launch in person, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Visitors Center will open to the public at 8 p.m. EDT. Because the launch is weather dependent, local spectactors and online viewers can recieve the latest updates from NASA via the Wallops center Facebook and Twitter sites.
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From NASA:
"The window for a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket launch to test a new ampoule ejection system designed to support studies of the ionosphere and aurora opens June 11 and runs through June 18. Lift-off for a June 11 launch is scheduled between 9:04 and 9:19 p.m. EDT.
"NASA has two ground stations — at Wallops and Duck, N.C. — to view blue-green and red artificial clouds that will be produced as part of the test. Clear skies are required at one of the two ground stations for this test.
"The multi-canister ampoule ejection system flying on this mission will allow scientists to gather information over a much larger area than previously able. Canisters will deploy between 4 and 5.5 minutes after launch releasing blue-green and red vapor to form artificial clouds. These clouds, or vapor tracers, allow scientists on the ground to visually track particle motions in space.
"The clouds may be visible along the mid-Atlantic coastline from New York to North Carolina.
"The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will open at 8 p.m. on launch day for viewing the flight.
"Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. on the Wallops Ustream site. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites."
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