This is the first of three scheduled launches from Australia, in which NASA will attempt to study habitable conditions around distant stars.
The launch occurred yesterday at the Arnhem Space Center on the Gove Peninsula in Australia’s Northern Territory. The launch was an agreement between NASA and Equatorial Launch Australia , making it NASA’s first commercial launch from the continent, and also the first commercial space launch in Australia’s history.
Yesterday’s launch involved a Black Brandt IX suborbital rocket, which launched at 10:29 a.m. ET and reached an altitude of over 200 miles . The rocket’s payload was the, an instrument that will collect interstellar X-rays from mysterious sources deep in our galaxy in order to understand the evolution of stars and galaxies.
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