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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
NASA rockets study upper level jet stream
The short video that I embedded here shows the launch of five ATREX rockets, suborbital rockets, to study the upper level jet stream. The rockets were launched 80 seconds apart from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia early in the morning of March 27, 2012.
For more information:
NASA - about the study, (brief description about the study, diagram of atmosphere, about the rockets
NASA - ATREX mission (info on launch, links to photos, etc.
NASA - successful launch of ATREX (includes slide show)
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