Mesquito
The Mesquito is an American sounding rocket vehicle developed for the NASA Sounding Rocket Program on Wallops Island, Virginia. The Mesquito was developed to provide rocket-borne measurements of the mesospheric region of the upper atmosphere.[1] An area of great science interest is in the 82–95 km region, where the conventional understanding of atmospherics physics is being challenged.
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The Mesquito is a two-stage sounding rocket using a 9-inch-diameter (230 mm) solid propellant rocket motor as the first-stage propulsion device. The non-propulsive second-stage dart contains a free-flying structural body that includes an avionics suite and an experiment space with interface.
The maiden flight occurred on 6 May, 2008, from LC-2 at the Wallops Flight Facility.
