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The rocket depicted is a Black Brant 8 (a.k.a Nike Black Brant), not a Black Brant 9 (a.k.a. Terrier Black Brant). See source [1] --GDK (talk) 11:14, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

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English: Two calorimeter arrays have already measured cosmic x-rays as part of a joint undertaking of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center known as the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) project. Carried aloft on a Black Brant 8 sounding rocket, the instrument observed the diffuse soft x-ray emission from a large solid angle at high galactic latitude.
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Source NASA GSFC XQC project, url=http://phonon.gsfc.nasa.gov/qcal/qcal_box.html
Author Dan McCammon at Wisconsin and by Andrew Szymkowiak and Scott Porter at Goddard
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The ongoing XQC project, led by McCammon at Wisconsin and by Andrew Szymkowiak and Scott Porter at Goddard, serves as a testbed for new calorimeter technology optimized for soft x-rays.

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