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Title: Five Sounding Rockets in Five Minutes
Post by: curry1 on March 19, 2012, 08:15:15 PM

March 21st Midnight to 5am, five sounding rockets will launch out of NASA Wallops Island VA.

Here is the official Information Page:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex.html

This image shows how far away you can be an see the motors burning.

(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/627508main_ATREX_TrajectoryView-orig.jpg)

This image below shows how far away you can be and see the Chem Trails left by the Tri-Methyl Aluminum in the rocket pay load.

(http://i.space.com/images/i/15814/i02/atrex-tracers-visibility-map.jpg?1331574455)


Here is the link for the web-cast it will start at 8pm on March 20th.

http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/webcast/

Title: Re: Five Sounding Rockets in Five Minutes
Post by: curry1 on March 20, 2012, 09:42:25 PM

bump webcast is live now, chance of a launch tonight.

Title: Re: Five Sounding Rockets in Five Minutes
Post by: M0nkey_Man on March 20, 2012, 09:49:51 PM

Quote from: curry1 on March 20, 2012, 09:42:25 PM

bump webcast is live now, chance of a launch tonight.

watching it right now :rock

Title: Re: Five Sounding Rockets in Five Minutes
Post by: 321BAR on March 20, 2012, 09:51:12 PM

will be looking to the skies tonight also :aok

Title: Re: Five Sounding Rockets in Five Minutes
Post by: curry1 on March 20, 2012, 09:57:07 PM

They just ended a really awesome Q and A.

Using their Twitter and Facebook pages.