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Rocket Launch Delayed at Wallops Island

Wallops Flight Facility

Another Wallops Flight Facility launch has been scrubbed due to poor weather conditions with the next backup date set for tomorrow.

The rocket payload is the Multiple User Suborbital Instrument Carrier that contains a number of engineering development projects and experiments from West Virginia University under a NASA undergraduate program.

It will be carried up into orbit by Terrier Improved Malemute sounding rocket.

The launch had originally been scheduled for December but was delayed for a number of reasons including problems with retrieval on rough seas and vessels underneath the launch path.

Its backup dates are February 23 through Feb. 26th.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.