{"id":771429,"date":"2023-11-08T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771429"},"modified":"2023-11-08T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:00:27","slug":"nasa-sounding-rocket-launches-into-alaskan-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771429","title":{"rendered":"NASA Sounding Rocket Launches into Alaskan Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA Sounding Rocket Launches into Alaskan Aurora<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center\u2019s DISSIPATION mission. The rocket launched into aurora and successfully captured data to understand how auroras heat the atmosphere and cause high-altitude winds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The teams continue to support a second sounding rocket launch for BEAM-PIE, a mission for Los Alamos National Laboratory that will use an electron beam to create radio waves, measuring how atmospheric conditions modulate them. The data is key to interpreting measurements from many other missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Sounding Rockets Program<\/a>, funded by NASA\u2019s Heliophysics<\/a> Division, is managed at the agency\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia, under NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a> in Greenbelt, Maryland.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: NASA\/Lee Wingfield<\/em><\/p>\n

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