With DUST-2 Launch, NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program is Back on the Range

Friday, September 4, 2020 - 09:20 in Astronomy & Space

Portal origin URL: With DUST-2 Launch, NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program is Back on the RangePortal origin nid: 464182Published: Friday, September 4, 2020 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The first NASA sounding rocket since the coronavirus pandemic began in the United States is about to launch. DUST-2 will carry a miniature laboratory into space, simulating how tiny grains of space dust – the raw materials of stars, planets and solar systems – form and grow.Portal image: Artist's concept of a protoplanetary disk

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