![]() ![]() Check out NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Centers events, learn more, or contact this organizer. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was established in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee f. The next launch from Wallops is targeted for late October 2022. is using Eventbrite to organize upcoming events. Launch site: Pad 0A, Wallops Island, Virginia. Sporadic-E layers on Earth can cause unpredictable disruptions to radio communications. A NASA rocket mission, launching May 26, 2021, will study radio waves that escape through the Earths ionosphere impacting the environment surrounding GPS and geosynchronous. A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch the second pair of small CubeSats for NASAs TROPICS mission. While the main purpose of SpEED Demon was to test the instrument package and risk reduction on some new technologies for usage on subsequent rocket missions, scientists are excited that they were able to launch into a Sporadic E layer in the ionosphere, the electrified upper portion of Earth's atmosphere that's made of ionized gas called plasma. We'll be looking at the performance of all instruments to get us ready for the 2024 launch," said Aroh Barjatya, SpEED Demon principal investigator and director of the Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Preliminary analysis shows that we flew through a Sporadic E event on the downleg and the data looks great. The SpEED Demon instruments will be further improved based on results from this launch and will subsequently fly on a science mission targeted for summer 2024 from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands and possibly many other sounding rocket opportunities. The purpose of the SpEED Demon mission was to test new instrumentation along with heritage instruments that have flown on other sounding rocket missions, but not together. The experiment was not planned to be recovered. The Terrier-Improved Malemute carried the Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics Demonstration mission, or SpEED Demon, to an apogee of 100 miles before descending and landing in the Atlantic Ocean. ![]()
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