States like Florida, Texas and California are no strangers to routine rocket launches − but New Mexico? Spacecraft also sometimes get off the ground from the state. Space news coverage may be ...

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 ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - Precision sounding rockets are scheduled to lift off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Officials say the launch window is from May 11-18. They say the launch will ...

NASA launched a sounding rocket, the SNIFS, to study the sun's chromosphere. The rocket reached an altitude of 215 miles and gathered data for approximately eight minutes. Preliminary reports indicate ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA- A sounding rocket is set to lift off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. NASA officials say the rocket may be visible in the Chesapeake Bay area between Thursday and Monday. They ...

The rockets released vapor tracers that formed milky, white clouds, allowing us to "see" the winds in space. Viewers from Lumberton to Wildwood in New Jersey sent Action News pictures. Sounding ...

Vapor tracers from the AWESOME Mission rockets seen over the Arctic Ocean from a ground station in Utqiagvik, Alaska. Just when you thought the northern lights couldn’t get any more stunning, along ...

The 18th annual International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), organized by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA), is being held June 9-14 at Spaceport Midland. VisitMidland, the ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This is the WAC-Corporal liquid-fuel sounding rocket, the U.S.'s first successful sounding rocket. Developed from 1944 ...

Space news coverage is often headlined by crewed missions to the International Space Station or SpaceX's latest test of its enormous Starship spacecraft. States like Florida, Texas and California are ...