HaloSat Lauches as Part of Cargo Aboard Antares Rocket (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

HaloSat Lauches as Part of Cargo Aboard Antares Rocket

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HaloSat launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on May 21, 2018, aboard a Cygnus spacecraft from Orbital ATK, now known as Northrop Grumman, on the company's Antares rocket. HaloSat will study the halo of gas around the Milky Way as part of the search for the universe's missing matter.

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NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

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