
Ep. 605: Sounding Rockets
Astronomy Cast
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X Ray Astronomy - What Can You Do With a Sounding Rocket?
X rays are dangerous. They cause cancers. Small amounts, get your teeth x raytat the dentist. But if we were exposed to the amount of x ray that is generally being produced in outer space, it would increase. We'd be something entirely different. There's entire areas of science that we just otherwise can't do that we can start to do with sounding rockets for five to 20 minutes at a time. So again, test your equipment with this, then launch it and do the awesome stuff with the launch.
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