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Sweeping Langmuir Probe (Slp) Of The Storms Sounding Rocket Mission, Padmashri Suresh, Charles Swenson
Sweeping Langmuir Probe (Slp) Of The Storms Sounding Rocket Mission, Padmashri Suresh, Charles Swenson
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On October 30, 2007 NASA launched rocket 36.218 carrying the mission: “Investigation of Mid Latitude Ionospheric Irregularities Associated with Terrestrial Weather Systems” also known as the STORMS Mission. The rocket was launched from Wallops Island, Virginia (37.95◦ N, 284.53◦ E, 67.5◦ dip angle) at twelve minutes past local midnight. It flew along an azimuth of 114◦ and reached apogee near 394 km. The rocket payload had a suite of instruments from Utah State University/Space Dynamic Lab (USU/SDL) and University of Texas, Dallas (UTD), for making in-situ electron density, wind and electric field measurements.
The Sweeping Langmuir Probe or SLP was …