What are sounding rockets? NASA's Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket, the model that will be used in an upcoming launch, lifts off in September on a parachute test for a future mission to Mars ...

A smaller 60-foot-tall NASA spacecraft known as a sounding rocket launched from New Mexico to study the sun's mysterious chromosphere and its corona.

The Black Brant IX, the sounding rocket selected for the most recent launch from New Mexico, stands nearly 60 feet tall.

Spacecraft studied solar chromosphere For the latest mission from White Sands, a Black Brant IX sounding rocket carried new technology to study the sun's mysterious chromosphere, located between the ...