Rocket carrying students' experiments launches from Shore

A suborbital sounding rocket successfully lifted off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore this morning, according to the space agency.

The two-stage Terrier-Orion rocket carried experiments from nearly 100 university instructors and students who have been attending a week-long workshop at the Wallops Island facility, according to a NASA news release.

The rocket carried the experiments to an altitude of 73 miles, the release says. They were recovered and the results will be analyzed by the students this afternoon.

The workshop, RockOn/RockSat is a program held in partnership with the Virginia Space Grant Consortium and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, the release says.