In order to perform land-based recovery of the payload, NASA has developed a new water recovery system for the rocket

NASA will launch a "Water Recovery X-ray Rocket" (WRX) in Guagarin Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Pennsylvania State University, which participated in the project cooperation, stated that the suborbital detection rocket used in the research will fly in a parabolic orbit. As an alternative to traditional terrestrial recycling, WRX is also the first rocket to use NASA's newly developed water recycling system on the Guagarin Atoll.

Currently, NASA mostly performs suborbital rocket missions at the White Sands Missile Test Range in New Mexico. And doing so will help NASA perform land-based recovery of valuable payloads. At the same time, the agency has also developed a water recovery system.

Randall McEntaffer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and lead researcher at WRX, said that the ability to recover water loads opens new doors for additional observation purposes.

As an astronomer, the sky we observe depends on the latitude of the observation. When we walked towards the southern latitude, we opened up the southern sky.

At the Baisha missile test site, the effective observation altitude for Vela is too low. The ability to launch water recovery from Guagarin Atoll increases the number of our observation targets.

It is reported that WRX will be equipped with an X-ray spectrometer developed by the University of Pennsylvania, which will study the supernova X-rays of the Milky Way. If all goes well, this mission will provide an opportunity to verify the new X-ray spectrometer and higher efficiency.

By measuring the X-rays of the supernova, researchers can determine the status of the Vela supernova remnants, such as ionization state, temperature, and composition.