Sounding Rocket Launch

Last night I had a chance to head out to Wallops Island to watch a sounding rocket experiment. I think that this one was designed to create a high altitude cloud of particles for VHF radio experiments. Here are a couple of pictures from the night.


Sounding rocket on the rail early in the evening.


Lift off!

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