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Published January 08, 2015
NASA has launched a rocket carrying an inflatable heat-shield technology demonstration flight from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The agency says a Black Brant XI sounding rocket carrying the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment was launched Monday morning. It's projected to splash down about 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras, NC.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-rocket-with-inflatable-spacecraft-heatshield-blasts-off