Posted on 10/04/2017 8:22:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Virginia at 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045 GMT). You can watch it live online at NASA's Wallops Ustream site here, beginning at 6:15 a.m. EDT (1015 GMT).
The suborbital rocket will carry the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE), designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. JPL engineers developed the parachute system to withstand the high speeds and thin atmosphere spacecraft encounter during the decent to the Martian surface. Wednesday's launch aims to test the system in the low density of Earth's upper atmosphere.
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NASA will use a 58-foot tall (17.6 meters) Terrier-Black Brant IX rocket to loft ASPIRE to an altitude of 32 miles (51 kilometers) approximately 2 minutes into the flight...
"The payload will splash-down in the Atlantic Ocean 40 miles from Wallops Island,"
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
I want a parachute that goes faster than the speed of sound!!!
I’ll leave people falling at terminal velocity in the dust!!!
Wait...?
SpaceX launches two satellites in the next few days, one from Florida, one from the west coast. Thanks BenLurkin.
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