CHESS

Washington: The third flight for the NASA-funded CHESS mission to probe how the interstellar cloud is structured is scheduled to take place on June 27.CHESS -- short for the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph -- is a sounding rocket payload that will fly on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket, NASA said. This would be the third flight for the CHESS payload in the past three years, and the mission's most detailed survey yet, the US space agency added. Deep in space between distant stars, space is not empty. Instead, there drifts vast clouds of neutral atoms and molecules, as well…