{"id":5002,"date":"2015-07-03T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T09:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2015-07-03T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T09:44:29","slug":"nasa-testing-space-technologies-with-wallops-rocket-launch-july-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-testing-space-technologies-with-wallops-rocket-launch-july-7\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Testing Space Technologies with Wallops Rocket Launch July 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NASA sounding rocket payload carrying two space technology development projects goes through GPS checks at the Wallops Flight Facility by technicians Tom Malaby (left) and Darren Ryan.
Credits: NASA\/Berit Bland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA will test two space technology development projects during the flight of a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 5:45 a.m. EDT, July 7, from the agency\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The launch window for the 54-foot tall rocket runs until 8 a.m. The backup launch days are July 8 \u2013 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rocket will carry the SOAREX-8 Exo-Brake Flight Test from NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California and the Radial Core Heat Spreader from NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n

The SOAREX-8 experiment is testing an Exo-Brake that can passively de-orbit an object in space. The Exo-brake utilizes nano-satellite technology housed in a 50-unit Cubesat ejector pod.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Radial Core Heat Spreader is a new heat transfer technology for Radioisotope Power Systems that substantially reduces the component level mass while providing increased scalability to higher power systems. The Black Brant IX experiment does not contain any nuclear materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

The flight is being conducted through NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The payload carrying the development projects is expected to reach an altitude of 217 miles approximately five minutes after flight.\u00a0 The payload is expected to splash-down in the Atlantic Ocean 164 miles from Wallops Island.\u00a0 The payload will not be recovered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Live Ustream coverage of the mission will begin at 5 a.m. EDT on launch day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA will test two space technology development projects during the flight of a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 5:45 a.m. EDT, July 7, from the agency\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch window for the 54-foot tall rocket runs until 8 a.m. The backup launch days are July 8 \u2013 10. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",985,657,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",750,500,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",750,500,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",985,657,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",985,657,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",985,657,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",855,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",600,400,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",600,400,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",735,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",540,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",640,427,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_5479_milliner_payload.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}