Real-time in-situ targeting of geoplasma domains for purposes of chemical injection and artificial triggering of equatorial spread-F
Abstract
A real-time in situ targeting capability was developed and applied in experiments designed to test the equatorial spread-F phenomenon. The system employed a rocket-borne payload carrying plasma instrumentation with a telemetry downlink to an online ground-based computer facility coupled to a real time uplink command line for chemical payload detonation. The system provided perfect positioning of each release relative to selected critical geoplasma domains. The experiment plan, launch criteria, and real-time system are presented and discussed in terms of numerical simulations which treat naturally occurring and chemically induced equatorial spread-F.
- Publication:
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ESA Special Publication
- Pub Date:
- July 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983ESASP.195..265S
- Keywords:
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- Equatorial Regions;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Spread F;
- F Region;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Real Time Operation;
- Rocket Launching;
- Lasers and Masers