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Major upgrade to HOT Shot rocket program culminates in successful launch

September 13, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories announced that a major upgrade to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s HOT Shot sounding rocket program culminated in a successful launch on Saturday at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. HOT Shot, short for High Operational Tempo Shot, collects scientific data that benefits...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: additive manufacturing, aerospace, NASA, sounding rocket

HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money

August 30, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An early milestone for developing missile technologies is to show they can work in computer-simulations or large-scale field tests that shake and spin components without falling to pieces. “Screws can back out; things can break,” said Greg Tipton, a structural dynamics engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. Similar...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: HOT SHOT, large-scale testing, sounding rocket, technology maturation, vibration

Sandia launches a bus into space

May 23, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories recently launched a bus into space. Not the kind with wheels that go round and round, but the kind of device that links electronic devices (a USB cable, short for “universal serial bus,” is one common example). The bus was among 16 total experiments...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: HOT SHOT, NNSA, Sandia National Laboratories, sounding rocket

Sandia delivers first DOE sounding rocket program since 1990s

October 22, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new rocket program could help cut research and development time for new weapons systems from as many as 15 years to less than five.Sandia National Laboratories developed the new program, called the High Operational Tempo Sounding Rocket Program, or HO…

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: NNSA, sounding rocket, technology maturation