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Title: New Satellites to Study Aurora Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on March 16, 2007, 08:08:20 AM Quote THEMIS's principal investigator is Vassilis Angelopoulos of the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), which is leading the mission for NASA and which designed and built the instruments in collaboration with agencies in Germany, France, and Austria. The first NASA mission comprised of five different coordinated spacecraft, all five THEMIS spacecraft were launched from Cape Canaveral together aboard a single rocket on February 17, 2007. Eventually the five will study the mysterious eruptions in Earth's Northern and Southern Lights known as "substorms," but first they must achieve widely separated orbits, a process that will take several months. An acronym for Time History of Events and Macroscopic Interactions during Substorms, THEMIS will obtain the evidence needed to solve what principal investigator Angelopoulos calls "a nagging question that the field has to resolve" -- namely, competing theories about where auroral substorms originate in the magnetosphere. Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news93104298.html Title: Re: New Satellites to Study Aurora Post by: WA1GFZ on March 16, 2007, 03:32:16 PM Interesting,
I wonder if they will fire up HARP and take pictures. The worlds biggest slim-o-tron. findings reported by T.I.T. Title: Re: New Satellites to Study Aurora Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on March 16, 2007, 03:58:56 PM Should be interesting to see the results of the data collected and their final evaluations.
(http://www.spaceweather.noaa.gov/pmap/gif/pmapN.gif) Title: Re: New Satellites to Study Aurora Post by: W1RKW on March 16, 2007, 04:38:09 PM The yellow looks like an ozone hole
Title: Re: New Satellites to Study Aurora Post by: John K5PRO on March 17, 2007, 11:21:43 PM A week ago we launched this bird, lots of rf receiving hardware onboard.
http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2007/03/09/headline_news/news01.txt Title: Re: New Satellites to Study Aurora Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on March 18, 2007, 02:41:15 PM The inflatable antenna sounds interesting. Can I get one for field day? AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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