The purpose of the MUSIC missions is to allow NASA Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate (AETD) engineering personnel to gain experience in developing sounding rocket technology, conduct systems engineering processes and Test NASA AETD experiments. This mission will result in a Standard payload carrier with predefined mechanical, telemetry, power and attitude control capabilities to offer to reimbursable customers and other Wallops Flight Facility developments. The sealed section of this payload carries experiments/instruments developed by AETD and include, High Data Rate X- Band, Wheel tracker Experiment (WTE) DANY TM Wet/Sealed Nosecone (AETD), Temperature and Strain measurement, Strain Gauge management System (SGMS) and Iridium GPS Beacon.

Additional experiments from West Virginia University's Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) include instruments for, Plasma Physics, Flight Dynamics with GPS and camera. These experiments will be flown in the wet section of the payload, i.e. the section is not sealed and will get wet when the payload impacts the ocean.