The Multiple User Suborbital Instrument Carrier (MUSIC) is set for launch Feb. 22 on a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility.
The launch is scheduled between 9:30 a.m. and noon EST. The backup launch days are Feb. 23 26.
Originally scheduled for launch in December 2015, MUSIC has been delayed several times because of weather, range clearance and payload issues.
The launch may be seen in the Wallops region from southern Delaware to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
MUSIC will carry several Wallops engineering development projects and experiments from West Virginia University, Morgantown, through the NASA Undergraduate Student Instrument Project.
The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will be open at 8:30 a.m. for viewing the launch.
Live coverage of the launch is available via UStream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops beginning at 9 a.m. on launch day. The status also can be followed on launch day on Twitter and Facebook.
The launch is supported through NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program at Wallops. NASA’s Heliophysics Division manages the sounding rocket program.
