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NASA PLANS SPACE FIREWORKS - Wed Jun 30 1999
NASA is preparing its own special fireworks display for Independence Day
and much of July with a series of nighttime
rocket launches. The launches, which will run from the 2nd of July to
the 20th, are designed to study space weather. More
specifically they will focus on improving our understanding of the
interaction of solar winds with the Earth's magnetic field and
atmosphere. During the 19-day period, two suborbital rockets will be
launched on each of two nights between 9:30 p.m. and
4 a.m. EDT from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight
Facility, Wallops Island, VA.
The rockets will release a chemical that will form large glowing clouds
in space and should be visible to the naked eye for
several hundred miles from the launch site. That area should include the
mid-Atlantic region and portions of the northeastern
and southeastern United States. The environmentally safe chemicals will
be released in the ionosphere between 43 and 96
miles altitude. The harmless byproducts will disperse across thousands
of miles as they diffuse into the upper atmosphere.
This is the area where the Sun's magnetic field (in the form of solar
winds) and the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere
come together. Their interactions can create disturbances just above
Earth's lower atmosphere.
These disturbances can affect radio, television and satellite
communications. By better understanding these interactions in the
ionosphere, scientists hope to gain information that will ultimately
help improve the reliability of radio and satellite
communications.
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