NASA Set to Launch Multiple Rockets During April 8 Total Solar Eclipse Written 5 April 2024
NASA launches a suborbital sounding rocket Aug. 17, 2017, from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. | Credit: NASA
SPACE reports, "NASA's Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission — named for the Egyptian god of darkness and enemy of the sun god, Ra — will launch the three sounding rockets back into the moon's shadow during the April 8 total solar eclipse. The goal is to study potential disturbances in the ionosphere during a solar eclipse." Launch is scheduled between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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