Northrop Grumman’s 18th cargo flight to the space station is the seventh under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA. NASA astronaut Nicole Mann will use the space station’s robotic Canadarm2 to capture Cygnus upon its arrival, while NASA astronaut Josh Cassada monitors telemetry during rendezvous, capture, and installation on the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. Installation coverage will resume at 7:15 a.m. Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the space station around 5:05 a.m. NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website will provide live coverage of the spacecraft’s approach beginning at 3:30 a.m. EST Monday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. University teams participating in the programs include:Ģ. Louisiana State University and A&M College, LAģ. First Nations Launch Winners (Northern Oklahoma College, OK)ħ. Pellissippi State Community College, TNġ4. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LAĢ1. University of Maryland College Park, MDĢ5. University of Maryland Eastern Shore, MDĢ7. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), VAĢ8. SPEID/Howard University/Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University/College of Eastern Idahoģ.U003cstrongu003eu003cemu003eCredits: NASA/Jamie Adkinsu003c/emu003eu003c/strongu003eĪ Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 5:32 a.m. NASA’s Heliophysics Division manages the sounding rocket program for the agency. NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program is conducted at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility, which is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. After recovery, the students will recover their experiments from the payload and begin data analysis. The student experiments will fly to more than 70 miles in altitude spending several minutes in suborbital space before returning to Earth where they will be recovered in the Atlantic Ocean. “We’re thrilled to take the RockOn and RockSat-C programs into their 15th year, serving thousands of students over the years and, importantly, helping to develop a pipeline of aerospace professionals,” said Joyce Winterton, senior advisor for Education and Leadership Development at Wallops.Īlong with the student flights, there are some 20 educators participating in the Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers, an educator professional development program that leverages the rocket mission to enhance classroom instruction in disciplines such as math, physics, and science. The programs are managed by Wallops’ Directorate Education team, which assumed responsibility of the nationwide program from the Colorado Space Grant Consortium in 2022. This is the 15th year that NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program has supported flight opportunities for the RockOn and RockSat-C programs, which provide students a hands-on opportunity to develop flight experiments. The Wallops Visitor Center will be open for launch viewing opening at 4:30 a.m. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites. Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 5:10 a.m. The experiments will fly on a Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket. In addition to the university payloads, some 80 additional experiments will take flight as part of the Cubes in Space program, which partners with Wallops to provide flight opportunities for students aged 11 to 18. Students watch at their experiments launch on a sounding rocket for the RockOn! student mission. More than 30 university teams are launching experiments into space as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs, taking flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Thursday, June 22, with a launch window that opens at 5:30 a.m. Teams will continue to evaluate the weather. Update JThe launch of the RockOn! student sounding rocket mission has been rescheduled to Friday, June 23, due to unfavorable weather and unsettled sea state during the launch window on Thursday. Update JThe launch of the RockOn! student sounding rocket mission has been rescheduled to Saturday, June 24, due to unfavorable weather on Friday. A new launch date will be determined at a later time. Update JUnfortunately, due to poor weather conditions on Saturday, June 24, the RockOn! student mission has been postponed. More than 30 university teams are launching experiments into space as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs taking flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Thursday, June 22, with a launch window that opens at 5:30 a.m.
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