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[link to arstechnica.com]
[link to www.nasa.gov]
Last week, we reported on NASA’s ATREX mission, which will launch five rockets in about five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream along the East Coast. These suborbital sounding rockets will release chemical tracers to track the high-speed winds nearly 100 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. In addition, a couple of the rockets will measure conditions such as temperature and pressure near the edge of space.
The late-night launch time might seem strange, but according to NASA this window was chosen to give clear skies and a dark moon for the best viewing conditions. The tracer clouds should be visible for up to 20 minutes following the launches, and may be seen along the East Coast from northern parts of South Carolina through New Jersey, and possibly as far as New Hampshire and Vermont
live webcast
[link to sites.wff.nasa.gov]
Mission status updates will also be posted on Twitter at [link to twitter.com]
weather at wallops island
[link to www.wunderground.com]
update -
NASA successfully launched the ATREX five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.
The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart.
Each of the rockets released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y.
ustream
[link to www.ustream.tv]
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