A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soared high out of Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks at 2:27 a.m. Saturday to learn more about pulsating aurora. The Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, or LAMP, experiment seeks to determine whether the pulsating aurora is connected to another phenomenon called microbursts, higher-energy electrons from the Earth’s magnetosphere driven […]
A NASA sounding rocket soared high from a launchpad in Norway on Wednesday morning in a decades-old quest to understand the cause of a persistent dense patch of upper atmosphere on Earth’s sun-facing side. The Cusp Region Experiment-2, or C-REX-2, is headed by space physicist Mark Conde of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute […]
A rocket launch gone awry on Saturday took the life of daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes in Barstow, California. The 64-year-old stunt man turned rocket enthusiast was attempting a 5,000-foot ascent on Saturday afternoon when the launch immediately went wrong. As the rocket fired off, it hit the ladder used for climbing up to the […]
SEOUL / WASHINGTON – North Korea fired two short-range projectiles Tuesday, hours after offering to resume nuclear talks with the United States. It is North Korea’s tenth round of weapons tests since early May, when Pyongyang resumed launching ballistic missiles following a year-and-a-half hiatus. The launch suggests North Korea will continue pressuring the United States, […]