New Montana State University Instrument Collects Sun Data Aboard NASA Rocket
October 29, 2019
October 29, 2019
BOZEMAN, Montana, Oct. 29 -- Montana State University issued the following news:
On the launch pad at White Sands Missile Range, the 10-foot section of a NASA sounding rocket housing scientific instruments designed and built by a team at Montana State University to observe explosive events in the sun's atmosphere was encased in Styrofoam to shield it from the New Mexico sun.
Graduate student Catherine Bunn monitored the instruments' temperature, chilling them . . .
On the launch pad at White Sands Missile Range, the 10-foot section of a NASA sounding rocket housing scientific instruments designed and built by a team at Montana State University to observe explosive events in the sun's atmosphere was encased in Styrofoam to shield it from the New Mexico sun.
Graduate student Catherine Bunn monitored the instruments' temperature, chilling them . . .