NASA on Tuesday successfully launched a suborbital rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The NASA Terrier-Orion sounding rocket launch took place at 9:07 a.m. The mission included the third test of the rocket's primary payload, NASA's Autonomous Flight Safety System. The onboard system is designed to issue a destruct signal if a launch flight deviates from its path.
The rocket is also carrying two additional payloads. The first is a NASA package of seven sensors to observe the rocket's performance. The third payload is a Federal Aviation Administration payload designed to inform aircraft and air traffic control systems of the in-flight location and velocity of launch vehicles that could pose a collision hazard to aircraft.
Preliminary indications are that all payload experiment systems received good data, NASA said after the launch.
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