Photos: CIBER Experiment Launches on Suborbital Rocket

SPACE.com Staff | June 07, 2013 05:20pm ET

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Dazzling NASA CIBER Rocket Launch

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A Black Brant XII suborbital rocket carrying the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) was successfully launched at 11:05 p.m. ET on June 5, 2013 from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.