Black Brant IX Rocket (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Black Brant IX Rocket

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This Black Brant IX rocket carried two instruments designed to study charge exchange, a physical phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space.

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