Rocketry Videos

Rocket-Triggered Lightning (2013-03-15)

To induce a lightning strike, researchers fire a rocket dragging a wire into an approaching electrical storm. If they are lucky, current will flow from the cloud, through the wire, to the ground, and ... [View]

Triggered lightning induces a terrestrial gamma ray flash (2016-07-27)

This raw footage shows a lightning flash scientists triggered by launching a rocket with a trailing spool of Kevlar-coated copper wire into the air. This lightning flash is particularly important ... [View]