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The NASA rocket launch will test science packages for future missions

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The NASA rocket launch will test science packages for future missions


By TechThop Team

Posted on: 23 Aug, 2022

The Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will conduct a sounding rocket launch on August 22 to test new science equipment for future missions.

As part of the Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics Demonstration mission, or SpEED Demon, new instrumentation will be flown along with heritage instruments from previous sounding rocket missions.

In summer 2024, a science mission targeting Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands and possibly other sounding rocket missions will fly the SpEED Demon instruments.

The SpEED Demon will launch aboard a 40-foot tall Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. EDT Aug. 22 and Aug. 23. A backup launch date is Aug. 23-27.

NASA's Wallops Visitor Center will be open until 8 p.m. on the day of the launch. In the mid-Atlantic/Chesapeake Bay region, the launch should be visible. An 8:40 p.m. live stream will be available via Wallops YouTube.

'The SPED Demon's principal investigator, Aroh Barjatya, is the director of the Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Spasadic-E layers are patchy, invisible clouds of dense plasma.

The abundance and activity of these layers increase during summer at Earth's mid-latitudes, according to Barjatya. The ability to model and predict them accurately depends on having a complete understanding of them.'

'In the SpEED Demon, a single rocket scientific payload contains a comprehensive instrument package. The main payload releases four instrumented sub-payloads, allowing simultaneous measurements over a vast space field. 'Scientific sounding rocket missions will be made possible by such a capability in the future,' said Barjatya.

The SpEED Demon mission is designed to test technology, not to wait for precise science conditions, as other science missions do.

The luck might turn out to be on our side,' Barjatya said. 'August 22 falls roughly at the tail end of the sporadic-E layer season in the northern hemisphere. So fingers crossed.'

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