Rubidium-vapor magnetometers were flown to altitudes near 150 km over Wallops Island, Va, in four Nike-Apache rockets; two flights were made at times when no ionospheric current was expected, and none was encountered; other two flights measured current sheet with lower edge at 105 km and upper edge at 123 km, total current being in agreement with that expected from ground observations; one of flights not encountering measurable ionospheric current was flown in conjunction with another rocket in order to obtain nearly simultaneous measurements of magnetic field, electron density, and winds; ionospheric current calculated using electron density and wind data was too small to have been observed by rocket magnetometer.
Rocket measurements of Sq currents at midlatitude
J Geophysical Research
Journal of Geophysical Research ; 70 , n 23
1965
12 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Rocket measurements of midlatitude Sq currents
NTRS | 1966
|Rocket measurements of S sub q currents at midlatitude.
NTRS | 1965
|Rocket measurements of mid-latitude sq currents.
NTRS | 1965
|Rocket measurements of mid-latitude Sq currents.
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