36.269 GS Black Brant IX was launched from White Sands Missile Range, NM on April 23, 2013.The purpose of this mission is to probe the structure and dynamics of the inner solar corona Study evolving and transient structures by obtaining spectra with a high cadence. Study diagnostics of wave heating and reconnection in the solar wind acceleration region provide absolute intensity calibration of orbital instruments including Hinode/EIS, Stereo/EUVI. SOHO/CDS & EIT, and TRACE. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Douglas Rabin/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

For more information on this mission see: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/eunis.html