Delaware RockSat UDIP-6 team at Wallops

Students and mission staff pose in front of their Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket on Pad 2 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The RockSat and RockOn programs provide technical training and hands-on experiences that prepare and equip students to enter the United States aerospace industry. For the first time, NASA combined both the RockSat and RockOn missions into one rocket, which carried experiments developed by nearly 250 participants from 38 university and community college teams.

2026 University of Delaware UDIP-6 team on the launch pad at Wallops Island Flight Facility with the rocket in the background

Students and mission staff pose in front of their Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket on Pad 2 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

The RockSat and RockOn programs provide technical training and hands-on experiences that prepare and equip students to enter the United States aerospace industry. For the first time, NASA combined both the RockSat and RockOn missions into one rocket, which carried experiments developed by nearly 250 participants from 38 university and community college teams.