NASA grant NAG5-5086 provided funding for the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to design, fabricate, calibrate, and ultimately fly two ion mass spectrometer instruments on a pair of sounding rocket payloads. Drs. R.A. Heelis and G.D. Earle from UTD were co-investigators on the project. The principal investigator for both rocket experiments was Dr. Robert Pfaff of the Goddard Space Flight Center. The overall project title was 'Rocket/Radar Investigation of Lower Ionospheric Electrodynamics Associated with Intense Mid-Latitude Sporadic-E Layers'. This report describes the overall objectives of the project, summarizes the instrument design and flight experiment details, and presents representative data obtained during the flights.


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    Title :

    Ion Mass Spectrometer for Sporadic-E Rocket Experiments


    Contributors:
    R. A. Heelis (author) / G. D. Earle (author) / R. Pfaff (author)

    Publication date :

    2000


    Size :

    13 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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