NASA launches rocket to study galaxy formation

With CIBER, scientists will study when the first stars and galaxies formed in the universe and how brightly they burned their nuclear fuel.

CIBER principal investigator Jamie Bock with the California Institute of Technology says researchers received good data from the rocket's payload.

This will be the fourth flight for CIBER on a NASA sounding rocket. The previous launches were in 2009, 2010 and 2012, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. After each flight, the experiment or payload was recovered for post-calibrations and re-flight.

The mission was scheduled on May 4, but it was postponed due to difficulty in cooling the instruments on the payload down to the required temperatures before launch./.

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