The Wallops Flight Facility launched a Black Brant IX suborbital rocket this morning at around 6:15 a.m.
It carried two space technology demonstration projects from the SOAREX-8 Exo-Brake Flight test NASA’s from the Ames Research Center in California and the Radial Core Heat Spreader from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio.
Officials said that data from both was received successfully.
The payload reached a height of 206 miles before falling back into the Atlantic Ocean.
None of it will be recovered.
The next launch will be of a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket on August 11th that will carry the RockSat-X university student payload.
