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The ESPRIT rocket payload launch: initial comparison with ground-based atmospheric measurements

Document ID: 322

Edwards, Perry S.¹
Philbrick, C. Russell¹
Surdal, Lars Helge²
Johnsen, Magnar G³
Latteck, Ralph⁴
Baumgarten, Gerd⁴

¹ The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, University Park, PA, U.S.A.
² Andøya Rocket Range, Andenes, Norway
³ University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
⁴ Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany
 

Presented: 18th ESA Symposium on 'European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research'
Visby, Sweden, June 3-7, 2007

Abstract

The ESPRIT (Engineering/Scientific Projects for Research and International Teamwork) rocket payload was launched from Andøya Rocket Range (ARR), Norway on l July 2006 at 0639 UT. Reaching an apogee of 169 km, the rocket payload was designed to investigate plasma interaction in the high latitude ionosphere, and the physical characteristics of mesospheric noctilucent cloud (NLC) particles and polar mesospheric summer echo (PMSE) cond1tions. Students from the Pennsylvania State University and three Norwegian universities (Oslo, Bergen and Narvik) worked along with faculty advisors to outfit the payload with multiple atmospheric measuring experiments suitable for the science investigations of ESPRIT.

 

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"The ESPRIT rocket payload launch: initial comparison with ground-based atmospheric measurements", Edwards, P. S., C. R. Philbrick, L. H. Surdal, M. G. Johnsen, R. Latteck, G. Baumgarten, Proceedings, 18th ESA Symposium on 'European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research', European Space Agency (ESA), November 2007, pp. 139 - 144