{"id":99013,"date":"2025-08-26T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99013\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:27:07","slug":"nasa-targets-sounding-rockets-night-launch-for-tomex-earth-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99013\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA targets sounding rocket&#8217;s night launch for TOMEX+ Earth study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aug. 26 (UPI) &#8212; NASA has set Tuesday for its next launch attempt of its TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission to take a peak at the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">U.S. citizens in the mid-Atlantic region may catch a weather-permitted glimpse Tuesday night of NASA&#8217;s launch of its mission to launch a TOMEX+ sounding rocket in its second attempt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/wallops\/2025\/08\/26\/nasa-sounding-rocket-mission-targeting-aug-26-launch-attempt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to NASA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The live-streamed launch is targeted in a window anywhere from 10:30 p.m. EDT to 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday, NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2025\/08\/20\/TOMEX-launch-NASA\/5491755723432\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced its TOMEX+ plan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announced its TOMEX+ plan<\/a> that looks to study the turbulence where Earth&#8217;s atmosphere ends and outer space begins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tuesday&#8217;s launch attempt comes after repeated other launch attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sounding rockets are those that can be aimed to reach the Earth&#8217;s mesopause, an area of the atmosphere that&#8217;s too high for weather balloons and too low for traditional satellites to reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 26 (UPI) &#8212; NASA has set Tuesday for its next launch attempt of its TOMEX+ sounding rocket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,4375,10419,307,66,54620,54619,14662],"class_list":{"0":"post-99013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-earths-atmosphere","11":"tag-launch","12":"tag-nasa","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-sounding-rocket","15":"tag-tomex","16":"tag-wallops-flight-facility"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}