Суборбитальные пуски (научные и экспериментальные)

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ASPIRE

Запись пуска на Мордокниге

https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-29/10000000_549699992081432_2665321433902612480_n.mp4?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJybHIiOjk5MCwicmxhIjo0MDk2LCJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InNkIn0%3D&rl=990&vabr=550&oh=8a004e400c7992a0df2ef391473840dc&oe=5ABFDD89
https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-29/10000000_549699992081432_2665321433902612480_n.mp4?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJybHIiOjk5MCwicmxhIjo0MDk2LCJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InNkIn0%3D&rl=990&vabr=550&oh=8a004e400c7992a0df2ef391473840dc&oe=5ABFDD89 (16:28 )

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ASPIRE

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http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/113953366

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 54 сек. назад

The ASPIRE mission launched at 12:19 this afternoon, successfully conducting a test of a parachute that one day may be used on Mars. More photos of this launch can be found on the NASA Wallops Instagram page.

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ASPIRE

Parachute Test Takes Flight From Wallops

NASAWallops

Опубликовано: 31 мар. 2018 г.

The launch of a Black Brant IX sounding rocket carrying the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment or ASPIRE was successfully conducted at 12:19 p.m. EDT, March 31, 2018, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 5 мин. назад

Suborbital mission NASA 36.327NR (ASPIRE) was launched at 1619 UTC Mar 31 from Wallops Island, Virginia. The Black Brant 9 rocket carried the Mars-parachute test payload ASPIRE 2 to the stratopause at 51 km; it did not go into space.

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2018/mars-parachute-test-successfully-launched-from-wallops

March 31, 2018

Mars Parachute Test Successfully Launched from Wallops

The launch of a Black Brant IX sounding rocket carrying the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment or ASPIRE was successfully conducted at 12:19 p.m. EDT, March 31, 2018, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

ASPIRE was testing a parachute for possible future missions to Mars.

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The next ASPIRE test at Wallops is currently scheduled for later this summer.

ASPIRE is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, with support from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is based at Wallops. Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia, provides mission planning, engineering services and field operations through the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract. NASA's Heliophysics Division in Washington manages the sounding rocket program for the agency.

The Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) took flight from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Saturday, March 31. This was the second ASPIRE test conducted at Wallops for NASA"s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Last Updated: March 31, 2018
Editor: Jeremy Eggers

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops сейчас2 минуты назад


The ASPIRE mission successfully launched this morning from Wallops Flight Facility. It was the heaviest and largest diameter payload ever flown on a Black Brant IX sounding rocket. The team hopes to conduct another test this summer.

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TO 1112N16813E TO 1051N16820E TO 1005N16804E TO 0956N16743E TO
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2018. CREATED: 02 APR 10:11 2018
 
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0930N16731E TO 0928N16730E TO 0925N16728E TO 0924N16728E TO POINT OF
ORIGIN AND WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 1025N16713E TO 1109N16729E TO
1121N16749E TO 1112N16813E TO 1051N16820E TO 1005N16804E TO
0956N16743E TO 1003N16722E TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL. 05 APR 09:15 2018 UNTIL
05 APR 12:55 2018. CREATED: 02 APR 10:14 2018

Пусковое окно: 04.04.2018 09:15 - 13:10 UTC
Запасной день: 05.04.2018 09:15 - 12:55 UTC

ПМСМ, пуск ракеты Black Brant IX (миссия WRX) с атолла Кваджалейн - #377

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NOTAMs #428

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Дополнительный НОТАМ (к #428 )

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0930N16731E TO 0928N16730E TO 0925N16728E TO 0924N16728E TO POINT OF
ORIGIN AND WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 1025N16713E TO 1109N16729E TO
1121N16749E TO 1112N16813E TO 1051N16820E TO 1005N16804E TO
0956N16743E TO 1003N16722E TO POINT OF ORIGIN
SFC-UNL. 06 APR 09:15 2018 UNTIL 06 APR 12:55 2018. CREATED: 03 APR 10:47 2018

Запасной день (2): 06.04.2018 09:15 - 12:55 UTC

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ASPIRE 2 (SciNews из записи НАСА на UStream и Facebook)

Terrier-Black Brant IX launches ASPIRE (Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment)

SciNews

Опубликовано: 31 мар. 2018 г.

A NASA Terrier-Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket launched the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility inVirginia, on 31 March 2018, at 16:19 UTC (12:19 EDT).

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WRX

Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 9 ч. назад

I heard today that Randy McEntaffer's water-recovered X-ray astronomy sounding rocket WRX (NASA 36.330UH) flew successfuly from Kwajalein. No details yet.

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WRX

NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 2 мин. назад

The Water Recovery X-ray rocket (WRX) successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll at 10:40 p.m. local (6:40 a.m. EDT) yesterday – leaving @PSUresearch and team smiling ear to ear!

WRX is the 1st mission to use a NASA-developed water recovery system for astronomical payloads.

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https://www.nasa.gov/Wallops/2019/image-feature/nasa-wrx-recovered

April 5, 2018

NASA WRX Recovered

The Water Recovery X-ray rocket, or WRX, is off-loaded from the recovery boat The Great Bridge following its successful launch from the Kwajalein Atoll at 10:40 p.m. local (6:40 a.m. EDT), April 4. WRX was the first mission to use a newly developed NASA water recovery system for astronomical payloads. The 1,444-pound payload was carried to an altitude of 127 miles. Data was received during the mission and is now being analyzed by the science team. Meanwhile, the WRX team from Penn State is all smiles following the successful launch. Next up from Kwaj is the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS 4, on April 13.

Last Updated: April 5, 2018
Editor: Patrick Black

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RH300 sounding rocket to be launched tomorrow in Kerala

PTI|Apr 05, 2018, 09.52 PM IST
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The RH300 sounding rocket, developed by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) as part of a study to enrich available atmospheric data, would be launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), here tomorrow. 

This will be the 21st launch of RH300 sounding rocket, a release from VSSC said today. 

The launch, scheduled at 19.15 hrs, is part of a study undertaken by VSSC under the Sounding Rocket Experiment (SOUREX) programme, which utilises the RH-300 MKII sounding rocket to study the Equatorial E and lower ionosphere regions of the atmosphere, it said. 

The study will enrich available atmospheric data and refine the models used for tropical weather prediction, it added. 

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Любительское видео пуска RH300

RH 300 rocket launch in thumba

techno

Опубликовано: 7 апр. 2018 г.

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https://www.isro.gov.in/sounding-rocket-experiments-held-to-study-upper-atmosphere

Sounding Rocket Experiments held to Study the Upper Atmosphere

The 21st flight of ISRO's RH300 Mk-II Sounding Rocket, was launched on April 06, 2018 at 19:30 Hrs IST fr om the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram. In this launch, the single stage indigenous Sounding Rocket successfully expelled the chemical Trimethylaluminum (TMA) at altitudes between 90 - 108 km, marking the first successful TMA experiment with an indigenous rocket.

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Scientific objectives of the mission are to measure the ionospheric density and neutral winds in the E-Region of the ionosphere using two independent techniques, as well as to cross validate the measurements of wind by these techniques, investigating the modulations in the neutral wind along with electron density at dynamo heights and their implications in providing a trigger for the generation of equatorial Plasma Bubble and assessing the role of wind shears in generation of the E-region irregularities like Sporadic E, Blanketing Es etc.

Accordingly, the major scientific payloads flown were the following:

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• Electron and Neutral Wind (ENWi) Probe to measure neutral wind prevailing in E-region (90 to 120 km)
•  TMA chemical release technique to cross validate the ENWi data
•  Langmuir Probe (LP) to measure electron density
  

Space Physics Laboratory (SPL) of VSSC has developed the ENWi Probe indigenously and this was successfully flown earlier in 2010 during Sooryagrahan campaign using sounding rockets. TMA is a pyrophoric liquid that burns on contact with oxygen. The reaction between TMA and oxygen is slow and produces a long-lasting chemiluminescence that lasts for few minutes and this trail can be captured by white-light cameras from the ground. ENWi Probe is capable of providing wind assessment at any time of the day, while TMA is suitable for twilight and night conditions. TMA, when released in twilight conditions, produces both the white light associated with the chemiluminescence and a strong blue light associated with an aluminum resonance emission line.

The dynamo region over the geomagnetic equator represents the altitude region between 90 - 120 km wh ere the neutral wind plays a very important role in controlling the generation and evolution of electric field and allied electro-dynamical processes. It has been observed that the variability in the prevailing wind and its vertical structure in this region control the large-scale processes like Equatorial Electrojet (EEJ). However, there have not been many measurements on wind in the dynamo region, primarily been due to technical limitations to probe this region. None of the conventional techniques works in this region due to many of reasons. Globally also such measurements are sparse because geomagnetic equator passes over the ocean at most of the places/longitudes, except over Indian, African and Brazilian sectors. Though there have been sporadic attempts to study this region, there are significant gaps, especially in 90-120 km altitude region. The dynamo region has been aptly dubbed as "ignorosphere" of the atmospheric regions.

TMA expulsion experiments are extensively used for characterisation of wind propagation in the E and lower ionosphere regions of the atmosphere. The first launch of a TMA payload from TERLS took place on May 02, 1965 using a French Centaure Sounding Rocket. Seven more launches of TMA payloads have been carried out from the TERLS range using Centaure, Nike-Apache and Petrel Sounding Rockets of France, the USA and Britain respectively. TMA technique is still the preferred method for in-situ wind profile measurements in the upper atmosphere.

RH300 Mk-II is a single stage, fin stabilised, spinning Sounding rocket with a diameter of 305 mm, overall length of 5.6 m and capable of carrying a payload of 80 kg. The rocket is powered by a solid propellant booster motor that burns for about 20 seconds and generates a maximum thrust of 65 kN. The rocket is spun to about 4.5 revolutions per second by two spin rockets mounted at the tip of one set of opposite fins. The spin rockets function for 300 milliseconds and are then ejected out. The vehicle has a centralised sequencer-encoder which provides the commands for all the activities after launch. The data acquired by the various systems are transmitted to the tracking station through a programmable S-band transmitter.

The vehicle reached an apogee of about 107 km in 160 seconds. At 100 seconds after lift-off, when vehicle was at 90 km altitude, expulsion of TMA fluid was initiated. The expulsion continued for 43 seconds at an average flow rate of 50 gram/second. The TMA vapor trail was successfully photographed from four locations on the ground, namely, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli. The trail is initially a nearly straight line since it is released along the rocket trajectory. Afterwards, rotational and speed shears in the upper atmosphere distort the trail.

A quick look on the data shows presence of plasma enhancements associated with Equatorial Electrojet in the ENWi and LP data. Such an observation involving TMA is first of its kind in India and warrants special attention. The TMA trails clearly indicate the presence of strong wind shears and waves in the region 90-105 km, which have significant manifestation on the generation of E and F-region plasma irregularities. In brief, the experiment with RH300 Mk-II launch on April 06, 2018 was a sounding success in which first time Trimethylaluminium trail was created in upper atmosphere and was photographed from the ground.

Detailed analysis is under progress. It is expected that the final results will help in addressing some of the unanswered questions pertaining to the wind structure in the lower ionosphere region over the geomagnetic equator.


Typical RH300 Mk-II Sounding Rocket


Rohini Sounding Rocket Lift-off Trail


TMA Trail as seen from Thiruvananthapuram Ground Station


TMA Trail as seen from Kollam Ground Station


Trail as seen from Tirunelveli Ground Station


TMA Trail as seen from Kanyakumari Ground Station

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NOTAMs

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DEFINED AS 1205N16808E TO 1209N16856E TO 1122N16916E TO 1007N16831E
TO 1014N16745E TO 1052N16721E TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL. 12 APR 15:00 2018
 UNTIL 12 APR 17:40 2018. CREATED: 09 APR 11:16 2018

Зарезервировано пусковое окно с 15:00 до 17:40 UTC с 10 по 12 апреля с.г.
Прим. Здесь пуск планировался на 2018-04-13

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HYDROPAC 1314/2018 (81)

NORTH PACIFIC.
DNC 12.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 101500Z TO 101740Z APR,
   ALTERNATE 1500Z TO 1740Z DAILY 11 THRU 16 APR
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 09-24N 167-28E, 09-24N 167-27E,
   09-26N 167-28E, 09-28N 167-29E,
   09-27N 167-30E, 09-25N 167-29E,
   09-24N 167-28E.
   B. 10-54N 167-41E, 11-52N 168-17E,
   11-51N 168-44E, 11-28N 169-01E,
   10-28N 168-25E, 10-27N 167-55E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 161840Z APR 18.

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Зарезервированное пусковое окно с 15:00 до 17:40 UTC с 10 по 16 апреля с.г

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NOTAMs (#438)