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Utah State University and NASA Launch Probes into Northern Lights

Submitted by pfrr on Thu, 2015-02-12 13:51

A NASA Oriole IV suborbital sounding rocket blasts off from the Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska Jan. 28 at 3:41 a.m. (MST) carrying six research payloads built by the Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory into the Aurora Borealis as part of NASA's Auroral Spatial Structures Probe mission. (Photo credit: NASA)
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Beautiful video: NASA launches rockets into the northern lights over Alaska

Submitted by pfrr on Wed, 2015-02-11 13:15

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Four rockets successfully launched at Poker Flat

Submitted by pfrr on Tue, 2015-01-27 17:07

FAIRBANKS - Researchers at the Poker Flat Research Range sent four rockets into an aurora filled sky early this morning.

The four launches were successful and appear to have produced data that will help researchers understand turbulent air currents in the upper atmosphere, said Sue Mitchell a spokeswoman for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.
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Fairbanks Looking Back — Jan. 20, 2015

Submitted by pfrr on Tue, 2015-01-27 14:50

10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 20, 2005 — Elected Interior officials are annoyed with Gov. Frank Murkowski’s road initiatives because he didn’t include enough money for Fairbanks projects and projects that made the list were not labeled a priority.

Last month, Murkowski announce he planned to spend $108 million of state money to relieve congestion in Fairbanks, Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley area and the Kenai Peninsula. Fairbanks received $3.5 million while Anchorage got $56.5 million.

25 YEARS AGO
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46.009 & 46.010 UE COLLINS/UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA

Submitted by pfrr on Thu, 2015-01-15 19:10

The M-TEX mission will be launched in conjunction with the MIST mission.These two collaborative investigations will be flown from Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska in early 2015. A total of four rockets will be flown to investigate and enhance our understanding of how meteorological processes control the impact of solar processes on the Earth’s atmosphere, i.e. how does the atmosphere respond to auroral, radiation belt, and solar energetic particles, and what are the effects on nitric oxides (NOx) and ozone.
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49.002 UE SWENSON/UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

Submitted by pfrr on Thu, 2015-01-15 19:05

The Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP), is intended to launch into a diffuse aurora in geomagnetically active conditions following the recovery of an auroral substorm. This high altitude rocket and ASSP payload will be launched along the magnetic field line and carry six subpayloads which will be ejected from the main payload at high velocity. The subpayloads will be launched both along the flight path and normal to it so that spatial features and temporal-spatial ambiguities can be explored.
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41.111 UE LARSEN/CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

Submitted by pfrr on Thu, 2015-01-15 19:02

The MIST payloads, launched in close sequence with the M-TEX rockets, gather data about turbulence in the mesospheric inversion layer by deploying tri-methyl aluminum tracer (TMA) material. The TMA is released from the payloads during both the upleg and downleg portions of the flight and creates whitish clouds that are photographed from several ground stations. Analysis of the data will enable detection of turbulence in the region between 80 and 140 km.
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Rocket to release green-glowing vapor over Interior Alaska

Submitted by pfrr on Thu, 2015-01-15 18:48

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NASA Rockets to Explore the Northern Lights

Submitted by pfrr on Thu, 2015-01-15 18:28

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/01/13/aurora-borealis-norther...
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Wallops Director to Talk Rockets

Submitted by pfrr on Thu, 2015-01-15 18:09

Wallops director to talk rockets

CONTACT: Diana Campbell, 907-474-5229, dlcampbell@alaska.edu

Director of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility William Wrobel will talk and answer questions during a free public event Friday, Jan. 16, at 1 p.m. in the Elvey Globe Room on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

Wrobel will provide an overview of the work conducted by NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. He also will highlight Poker Flat Research Range's 2015 sounding rocket launch season, Jan. 13-27.
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Utah State University and NASA Launch Probes into Northern Lights

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46.009 & 46.010 UE COLLINS/UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA

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