NJSGC and sounding rocket launch 2012

Joe Miles, Ethan Hayon, Mark Siembab and Mike Giglia recently returned from the Rock-SAT-C program. They worked on a sounding rocket payload to measure atmospheric gasses over the last year, transported the payload to Wallops Island, Virginia and launched it approximately 75 miles into space on Thursday June 21st, 2012.  They are currently analyzing the data.

Watch the video.

For more information, see: http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/rs-c-home/previous-experiments/rs-c-2014-home