Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment or RAISE is a

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funded series of sounding rocket missions to study the Sun in extreme ultraviolet. RAISE is supported by NASA's Sounding Rocket Program at NASA's

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. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the Sounding Rocket Program. Several missions continuously study the Sun such as NASA's

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(SDO), and the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) but certain areas of the Sun demand especially high-cadence observations in order to understand the rapid changes occurring there. This is the purpose of RAISE. The third flight in the series was launched as RAISE at 14:24:58 EDT, on 5 May 2017. The payload was launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket at the

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and flew to an altitude of . The experimenter, Don Hassler with the

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, reported that good data from the instruments observing the Sun was received during the flight. The payload was recovered.

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