Wallops launches sounding rocket Friday

NASA WAllops/Terry Zaperach photoThe launch of the Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying the RockOn/RockSat-C/Cubes in Space educational payloads occurred at 5:35 a.m. EDT Friday at the Wallops Flight Facility. Launch was postponed from Thursday due to a payload technical issue, unacceptable weather for launch and poor sea conditions in the payload recovery area.After being developed via a virtual learning experience, approximately 60 experiments built by university students across the United States are ready for flight on NASA suborbital flight vehicles.