In addition to this contract, the company's Technical Services business unit also supports NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in a number of other areas and is currently the prime contractor for NASA's
Sounding Rocket Operations Contract and NASA's Balloon Operations Contract.
Air Force's
Sounding Rocket Program-4.The seven-year contract has a total potential value of up to $424M, which is available to Kratos/Space Vector and one other awardee.
It will be a
sounding rocket launch, where a scaled-down launch vehicle will travel 190 miles above ground to take a quick 15-minute long peek at the sun.
In a statement on Monday by school owner Al Habtoor Group, educators said they were elated that student Vasandani's work had been recognised by Cubes in Space, described as a "global competition for students 11-18 years of age to design and propose experiments to launch into space or a near space environment on a Nasa
sounding rocket and zero-pressure scientific balloon."
He identified cooperation possibilities between the two agencies in "remote sensing applications, satellite platforms, the UAE's Mars mission, satellite navigation and
sounding rocket".
With the purpose of maintaining the configuration as simple as possible, the
sounding rocket is composed of one stage and a module hosting the avionics, experiments, and recovery system (parachute and the heat shield).
With its sights set on designing rocket engines to propel craft ever faster, higher, and farther, RMI developed an engine in 1948 for the Viking
sounding rocket and, thereby, staked a claim to spaceflight.
The feline astronaut, named Felicette, was launched on the Veronique AGI
sounding rocket, and was successfully retrieved after a parachute descent.
A NASA
sounding rocket carried the KalamSat from Wallops Island, a NASA facility.
NASA has scheduled to launch a research rocket, also known as a
sounding rocket, into the sky on June 13 and create colored clouds to help with studying the Earth's ionosphere and the aurora atmospheric phenomenon.
An experiment to measure nitric oxide in the polar sky was successfully launched on a NASA
sounding rocket at 8:45 a.m.