NASA探空火箭发射到阿拉斯加极光

A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s DISSIPATION mission. The rocket launched into aurora and successfully captured data to understand how auroras heat the atmosphere and cause high-altitude winds.

The teams continue to support a second sounding rocket launch for BEAM-PIE, a mission for Los Alamos National Laboratory that will use an electron beam to create radio waves, measuring how atmospheric conditions modulate them. The data is key to interpreting measurements from many other missions.

NASA’s Sounding Rockets Program, funded by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, is managed at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, under NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield

2023年11月8日，一枚探空火箭在阿拉斯加州费尔班克斯的扑克平原研究靶场发射，搭载了NASA戈达德太空飞行中心的DISSIPATION任务。火箭发射进入极光，并成功捕获数据，以了解极光如何加热大气并引起高空风。

这些团队继续支持BEAM-PIE的第二次探空火箭发射，这是洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的一项任务，将使用电子束产生无线电波，测量大气条件如何调制无线电波。这些数据是解释许多其他特派团测量结果的关键。

NASA的探空火箭计划由NASA太阳物理学部门资助，由该机构位于弗吉尼亚州的沃洛普斯飞行设施管理，隶属于位于马里兰州格林贝尔特的NASA戈达德太空飞行中心。

影像来源：NASA/Lee Wingfield