Virginia Tech: Researchers Launch Rocket to Study the Upper Atmosphere During Polar Night
July 31, 2026
July 31, 2026
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 31 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
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Researchers launch rocket to study the upper atmosphere during polar night
By Niki Hazuda
When the Polar Night Nitric Oxide (PolarNOx) experiment sounding rocket blasted off from Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska earlier this year, traveling at more than 2,400 mph into the upper atmosphere, it carried equipment designed at Virginia Tech to measure nitric oxide hi . . .
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Researchers launch rocket to study the upper atmosphere during polar night
By Niki Hazuda
When the Polar Night Nitric Oxide (PolarNOx) experiment sounding rocket blasted off from Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska earlier this year, traveling at more than 2,400 mph into the upper atmosphere, it carried equipment designed at Virginia Tech to measure nitric oxide hi . . .