为科学照亮夜空

In this image, a NASA Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket was launched at 8:44 p.m. EDT, Sunday, May 16, 2021, from the Wallops Flight Facility.

The four stage rocket carried the KiNETic-scale energy and momentum transport eXperiment, or KiNet-X, designed to study a very fundamental problem in space plasmas, namely, how are energy and momentum transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected.

These student-designed projects are a mix of technology and science experiments, including the development of a 360-degree camera for use on sounding rockets; space debris removal concepts; a solar array deployment system for CubeSats; and collection of particles in space for research on the origins of life.

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Image Credit: NASA Wallops/Terry Zaperach

在这张照片中，美国东部时间2021年5月16日周日晚8点44分，美国宇航局布莱克布兰特XII亚轨道探测火箭从瓦勒普斯飞行设施发射升空。

这枚四级火箭携带了动能尺度的能量和动量传输实验(KiNet-X)，旨在研究空间等离子体中的一个非常基本的问题，即能量和动量如何在磁连接的不同空间区域之间传输。

这些学生设计的项目是技术和科学实验的结合，包括开发用于探空火箭的360度相机；空间碎片清除概念；立方体卫星太阳能阵列部署系统；以及在空间收集粒子以研究生命的起源。

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图片来源：NASA Wallops/Terry Zaperach