{"id":176277,"date":"2025-08-26T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176277\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:09:09","slug":"nasa-to-attempt-launch-of-tomex-rocket-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176277\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to attempt launch of TOMEX+ rocket tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wallops Island, Va. (WSET) \u2014 If you&#8217;re out later tonight and you look to the north or northeast, you may see a bright light. <\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be a bird or a plane, but if all goes according to plan, it&#8217;ll be a rocket!<\/p>\n<p>The Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus, or TOMEX+, is a NASA sounding rocket mission that will investigate one of Earth\u2019s most turbulent atmospheric regions \u2014 the mesopause. (You can read more about this mission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/wallops\/2025\/08\/15\/turbulence-at-edge-of-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/wallops\/2025\/08\/15\/turbulence-at-edge-of-space\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>They have been attempting to launch the rocket for a while now, but some delays have altered those plans. <\/p>\n<p>They will try again tonight in a window from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Meteorologically &#8211; there shouldn&#8217;t be any problems, but we shall wait and see. <\/p>\n<p>You can follow along for updates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/wallops\/2025\/08\/24\/nasa-sounding-rocket-mission-targeting-aug-25-launch-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/wallops\/2025\/08\/24\/nasa-sounding-rocket-mission-targeting-aug-25-launch-attempt\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and watch the livestream <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NASAWallops\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NASAWallops\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any pictures of it, you can send them to our <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/chimein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/chimein\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">Chime In<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallops Island, Va. (WSET) \u2014 If you&#8217;re out later tonight and you look to the north or northeast,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[93411,26470,6226,99482,6522,916,1434,159,783,99478,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-176277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-atmospheric","9":"tag-delays","10":"tag-launch","11":"tag-mesopause","12":"tag-mission","13":"tag-nasa","14":"tag-rocket","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-tomex","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}