Rocket Launch - White Sands 3k x 2k AP9 maging system VAULT (Very high Angular resolution ULtraviolet Telescope) Ever wonder what one of our custom 3k x 2k AP9 flight imaging systems can do above the earth's atmosphere? VAULT is a new spectroscopic imaging instrument developed by the Solar Physics Branch of the Space Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory for the study of the very fine-scale structures of the solar atmosphere. In its present configuration VAULT can obtain images of the chromoshere in the Lyman a line (1216 A) with the unprecedented resolution of 0.25" (<200 km). VAULT Solar Image VAULT is flown as a sounding rocket payload and is the successor to the NRL High Resolution Telescope and Spectrograph (HRTS) payload that pioneered high spatial resolution observations in the far-UV since 1975. The first VAULT launch took place on May 7, 1999 at White Sands Missile Range and was a success!