Wallops to launch Black Brant Sounding Rocket tonight

After several delays due to weather, the Wallops Flight Facility will kick off the new year with the launch of a Black Brant IX sounding rocket tonight.  The launch is scheduled to occur between 10 PM and 2 AM. It will carry an experiment  to study the origin of soft X-rays in our galaxy that impact technology in Earth’s atmosphere.

2021 was a busy year at the Wallops Flight Facility.   In 2021 Wallops supported 20 sounding rocket missions, two cargo resupplies to the space station, launched a Minotaur rocket for the Department of Defense’s   Space Force,  and flew 10 balloon carrying technology and space missions.

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