SESDA Supports a Successful Sounding Rocket Launch

Congratulations to the NASA GSFC and Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) teams on the successful launch of a Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket at 8:44 p.m. EDT on May 16, 2021. The rocket was launched from WFF and carried the KiNETic eXperiment (KiNet-X) which aims to study how energy and momentum are transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected. SESDA hardware and software engineers played critical roles in supporting the mechanical design, fabrication, assembly, integration and test (I&T) of the onboard instruments, and developing decommutation software to read and decode the instrument telemetry stream.

Comments are closed.