Design and development of electrical and mechanical instruments for the Auroral-E Program
Abstract
The Auroral E-Program consisted of four rocket payloads which were launched from the Poker Flat Research Range, Fairbanks, Alaska, on March 6, 1981. This report describes the engineering activities carried out during the development of the A10.903 payload. The payload experiment consisted of a double-probed electric field instrument to measure ac and dc electric fields, a density strip for measuring electron densities, and an automatic gain control (AGC) unit. Auroral-E Program objectives were to obtain in-situ measurements of several atmospheric and ionospheric parameters during a continuous diffuse aurora.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- May 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981ddem.book.....A
- Keywords:
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- Auroras;
- E Region;
- Electric Fields;
- Electronic Equipment;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Aeronomy;
- Airglow;
- Atmospheric Sounding;
- Electron Precipitation;
- Geophysics