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TI: A Sequential Sounding Rocket Flight Through Nighttime Midlatitude Plasma Layers
AU: * Roddy, P A
EM: roddy@utdallas.edu
AF: William B. Hanson Center for Space Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2601 N. Floyd Road MSFO22, Richardson, TX 75080 United States
AU: Earle, G D
EM: earle@utdallas.edu
AF: William B. Hanson Center for Space Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2601 N. Floyd Road MSFO22, Richardson, TX 75080 United States
AU: Larsen, M F
EM: mlarsen@celmson.edu
AF: Department of Pysics, Clemson University, 118 Kinard Laboratory, Clemson, SC 29634 United States
AU: Bishop, R L
EM: rbishop@clemson.edu
AF: Department of Pysics, Clemson University, 118 Kinard Laboratory, Clemson, SC 29634 United States
AU: Swenson, C
EM: charles.swenson@usu.edu
AF: Utah State University, 4100 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322 United States
AU: Carlson, C G
EM: chad.carlson@sdl.usu.edu
AF: Utah State University, 4100 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322 United States
AU: Bullett, T W
AF: Air Force Research Lab, Hanscom Air Force Base, Hanscom, MA 01731
AB: A sequential rocket campaign launched out of NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility (37.84N, 75.49W) sent four rockets though Sporadic-E and a suspected intermediate layer during one night in July of this year. The four payloads were launched between the hours of 3:19 and 7:07 GMT. Three of the rockets were mother-daughter payloads equipped with plasma impedance probes supplied by Utah State University and TMA chemical releases from Clemson University. The fourth rocket housed an electric field instrument, an ion mass spectrometer, and the new neutral wind instrument from the University of Texas Dallas along with a set of plasma impedance probes from Utah State University. An overview of the UTD instruments and the ionospheric conditions as derived from these data will be presented herein.
DE: 2411 Electric fields (2712)
DE: 2419 Ion chemistry and composition (0335)
DE: 2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions (0335)
DE: 2443 Midlatitude ionosphere
DE: 2494 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA - Aeronomy [SA]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting