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A launch planned for this morning from Wallops Island has been delayed by one day.
The launch is scheduled for tomorrow morning between 5:10 and 6:10 a.m.
Tomorrow’s event will test a new rocket carrying instruments to study hypersonic flight and a new design for spaceships entering the atmosphere.
The ALV X-1 rocket will carry HYBOLT, a NASA experiment testing temperature and pressure during hypersonic flight, which is anything over Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. It also will carry SOAREX, a new design for more efficiently delivering astronauts or equipment through the atmosphere on Earth or Mars.
In addition, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory will have aboard a test of a receiver and transmitter intended to help with ocean recovery.
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