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...rocket will have to lift off within a specific five or ten second period known as the "launch window," rise to an altitude of 94 miles, and fall into the eclipse's shadow at a specific point. "Either it goes during that launch window or we pack it up and go home and wait for the next eclipse," said Edmund Reeves, shortly after supervising the hook-up of the 120-pound instrument package with the rocket at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
Even during an eclipse, the chromosphere's strong ultra-violet light emissions are blocked out by the earth's atmosphere. Thus a rocket or satellite is needed for studying this region...
...previous attempt to do this-a French rocket launched from Brazil-was only a partial success...
...This is the first time a natural eclipse has passed over an established rocket range with all the established support facilities-the radar, weather prediction, telemetry, and ground crews-which you don't get when you do the job quick and dirty," Reeves said...
...Harvard College Observatory's Orbiting Solar Observatory VI (OSO-VI) will take simultaneous ultra-violet observations of the sun's visible disc and corona during the rocket launch...