Penn State Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Life Cycle of a Sounding Rocket Payload

Rocket Seen From End Inside of Rocket Payload Testing the Rocket Control Room Screens Vibration Testing
Woomera Missile Range White Sands Missile Range Field Testing Sequence Test Rocket onto the Launch Rail
Rail House Fun In The Sand Lizard Rocket On The Rail Telemetry Verification
Launch Night Countdown Begins Liftoff Flight Path Post-flight Recovery
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Our most recent rocket launch took place in August 1998.   See our  sounding rocket flight 36.176  page for more information.

For more information and pictures from our 1997 sounding rocket flight, see Laura Cawley's home page.

For more information regarding our sounding rocket program, contact Dr. David Burrows (burrows@astro.psu.edu).
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Maintained by Scott Koch (tsk@astro.psu.edu)
Last updated October 1, 1998