# First NASA ISINGLASS rocket launch

- By: NASA
- Date: 2017-02-22
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jlwl9457.jpg and https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sounding-rocket-launches-to-study-auroras
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_NASA_ISINGLASS_rocket_launch.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/First_NASA_ISINGLASS_rocket_launch.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A Black Brant IX sounding rocket launches from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska at 5:14 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017. This is the first of two launches planned in NASA's In Situ and Groundbased Low Altitude StudieS (ISINGLASS) mission to study the structures of auroras.