Northrop Grumman and NASA conducted a dramatic static-fire test of a booster for an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket last week. According to NASA, the five-segment booster rocket fired for more than two minutes, producing 3.9 million pounds (1.76 million ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — A trio of sounding rockets launched from NASA’s Flight Facility on Wallops Island Wednesday night. According to an X post from the flight facility, the launch of the TOMEX+ sounding rockets “aims to provide the clearest ...

Rockets lit up the night sky in our viewing area Wednesday night. NASA's sounding rocket mission TOMEX+ took off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, making vapor trails in the sky. Other WRAL Top Stories Viewers sent in ...

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If you were outside Wednesday around 10 p.m. you may have seen an odd squiggle in the sky as a NASA rocket launched from Virginia soared into the atmosphere. That weird squiggle was the TOMEX+ — the Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus Vehicle — a ...

Standing no more than about 70 feet tall, sounding rockets are much smaller than an average spacecraft that may launch on an orbital flight from major spaceports For comparison, SpaceX's famous two-stage Falcon 9 rocket – one of the world's most active ...