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Ep. 605: Sounding Rockets

Astronomy Cast

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The Microgravity Experiment on Sounding Rockets

The key for microgravity here is you are technically weightless as long as you are falling at the acceleration of gravity. The same technology that gets used on satellites like trace and chandra, in the x ray,. all of these technologies got pioneered five to 20 minutes at a time on sounding rockets and then put into orbit - knew they would work.

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