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Montana State University alumnus Jake Davis, left, Professor Charles Kankelborg, and doctoral students Catharine "Cappy" Bunn and Suman Panda, pose at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, where they are preparing for the launch of the FURST rocket mission to observe the sun in far ultraviolet.
An instrument designed and built at Montana State University to capture the first high-resolution, far-ultraviolet spectrum of the entire sun will be launched into space aboard a NASA rocket on Sunday, Aug. 11.
The launch, scheduled for 1:05 p.m. Mountain time from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, will be livestreamed at https://video.ibm.com/wstf-wsmr.
The unnarrated video will be "pretty spartan," according to Charles Kankelborg, MSU professor of physics and principal investigator for the scientific mission, but viewers should be able to visually follow the rocket's trajectory, w...
