Peru Campaign (Project Cielo) -- 2028

Peru Update from NASA HQ (Dr. Sabrina Savage) on April 23, 2025:

The Heliophysics Low-Cost Access to Space Program and the Sounding Rocket Program Office has been working toward enabling a sounding rocket campaign from Peru to take advantage of the equatorial location and the supporting radar infrastructure. Currently, however, the campaign development efforts have been paused, and proposals for the campaign will not be solicited in 2025. We will continue to work toward standing up the campaign and will inform the community once progress recommences towards accepting proposals.


A NASA Sounding Rocket Campaign in Peru - Unprecedented, Preeminent Science at a Unique Observing Site (white paper)

Cielo Rocket Campaign overview presented at CEDAR 2024

Link to Cielo Campaign on Cornell University Homepage

Jicamarca Support for Rocket Proposals for Cielo Campaign in Peru


Australia Astrophysics Campaign -- 2022

NASA Conducting Suborbital Rocket Missions in Australia in June and July 2022

Australia Sounding Rocket Campaign Press Kit

Solar Flare Campaign -- 2024


Solar Flare Sounding Rocket Campaign (a white paper by Winebarger, Glesener, and Reeves)

Two NASA Sounding Rockets Launch from Alaska During Solar Flare

Solar Flare Sounding Rocket Campaign summary presented at the SRWG meeting, July 9, 2024

Smithsonian Ice Airport Alaska episode highlighting the flare campaign (Facebook login not required)

Grand Challenge Cusp


Grand Challenge Initiative -- Cusp (2018-2019), Joint Program of: NASA (US)/Andoya Space (Norway)/JAXA (Japan)