apid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment or RAISE tagged posts

The Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment or RAISE was successfully launched at 2:24:58 p.m. EDT, May 5. The payload was launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and flew to an altitude of 184 miles The experimenter, Don Hassler with the Southwest Research Institute, reported that good data from the instruments observing the sun was received during the flight. The payload is being recovered.

The NASA-funded RAISE mission scrutinized split-second changes occurring near the sun’s active regions — areas of intense, complex magnetic activity that can give rise to solar flares, which eject energy and solar material out into space...