Scheduled Launch - Mar 23 to Apr 06 - PFRR - NASA - AWESOME

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute owns Poker Flat, located 20 miles north of Fairbanks, and operates it under a contract with NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which is part of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. 

 

The experiment, titled Auroral Waves Excited by Substorm Onset Magnetic Events, or AWESOME, features one four-stage rocket and two two-stage rockets all launching in an approximately three-hour period. 

 

Colorful vapor tracers from the largest of the three rockets should be visible across much of northern Alaska. 

 

The launch window is March (23) through April 6.

 

Colorful vapor tracers from the largest of the three rockets should be visible across much of northern Alaska.

 

Science NASA Gov: NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment. 

 

GI UAF PFRR NASA AWESOME: To receive updates about the launches, text PFRRLAUNCHES to 866-485-7614. 

 

NASA Gov Sounding Rockets: Type Vehicles. 

PFRR Facebook: Once the first rocket launches - the second will follow in 1 hour - and the third in 45 min following the second. 

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