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Hi-C
Всё-таки, учёные - большие (осень большие) дети     

Amy Winebarger‏ @AmyRWinebarger 16 мин. назад

This picture pretty much sums up the Hi-C data. #gohic @NASA_Marshall @NASA_Wallops @saoastro

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 44 мин. назад

These solar physicists sure have a great rea-sun to smile! The @NASA_Marshall-based Hi-C mission successfully launched from White Sands Missile Range yesterday aboard a Wallops sounding rocket to study the solar corona Photo courtesy of @AmyRWinebarger.

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Hi-C

Amy Winebarger‏ @AmyRWinebarger 5 ч. назад

Our team has started to disperse. Tomorrow, we hope, a truck will come to take the experiment back to MSFC. For now, I leave you with a photo from the Hi-C launch. #gohic @NASA_Marshall @NASA_Wallops @saoastro

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Amy Winebarger‏ @AmyRWinebarger 1 июн.

After a rocket launch, a few of the team members hop in a helicopter, go out to the desert and bring the payload home. As you can imagine, these are coveted positions. Here is the Hi-C recovery team. #gohic @NASA_Marshall @NASA_Wallops @saoastro

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Hi-C

Amy Winebarger‏ @AmyRWinebarger 9 ч. назад

Hi-C launch video. The Styrofoam box stays stationary and gets completely disintegrated by the motors. There is a two stage burn, the first stage falls off at about 10 seconds in, the second stage starts after 15 seconds. #gohic @NASA_Marshall @NASA_Wallops @saoastro

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Hi-C

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2018-09

Hi-C Launches to Study Sun's Corona

Release No.: 2018-09
For Release: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 12:00pm



Cambridge, MA - NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space at 2:54 p.m. EDT May 29, 2018, on its third flight to study the Sun. The clarity of images returned is unprecedented and their analysis will provide scientists around the world with clues to one of the biggest questions in heliophysics – why the Sun's atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than its surface.

The precision instrument, called the High Resolution Coronal Imager or Hi-C for short, flew aboard a Black Brant IX sounding rocket at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

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"This was the third launch of Hi-C," said Amy Winebarger, principal investigator for the Hi-C mission at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. "Our second launch in 2016 had an issue with the camera on-board the telescope of the instrument. So, while we gathered critical engineering data and some images, we did not get the high-quality images of the corona we were expecting. We improved the camera from the last launch and are already getting exciting data from Tuesday's experiment that could help explain the long-held questions about the Sun's atmosphere."

The telescope on Hi-C, the centerpiece of the payload weighing 464 pounds and measuring 10-feet long, is designed to observe a large, active region in the Sun's corona in fine detail. The instrument has been improved from the last mission with an updated camera that is expected to improve the data taken from the Sun and the images received. The duration of the space portion of the Hi-C mission provided five minutes of observation time with the telescope acquiring an image about every five seconds.

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) designed and built the optical telescope. This means they mounted and aligned the mirrors, bought the filters, as well as designed and built the structure that holds the mirrors. The SAO team also participates in field operations and science data analysis post flight.

"MSFC and SAO have a long history of collaboration in learning about our Sun," said SAO's Leon Golub, who was the principal investigator of a series of previous sounding rockets and satellites that led to the Hi-C flights. "It's exciting to see how far we've come in our decades working together."

Scientists anticipate that analysis of the imaging data from Hi-C's third flight will help resolve current questions about connections between the hot and cool regions of the solar atmosphere. To meet this goal, Hi-C's launch and data collection was coordinated with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), a satellite observatory that captures images of the cooler portions of the sun's atmosphere.

"This is the first combined simultaneous dataset that covers the entire solar atmosphere (photosphere, chromosphere, transition region and corona) at sub-arcsecond resolution!" said IRIS Principal Investigator and Hi-C co-investigator, Dr. Bart De Pontieu from Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory.

During its first flight in July 2012, Hi-C captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the one and a half million-degree solar corona, revealing previously unseen magnetic activity. For decades, scientists have suspected that activity in the Sun's magnetic field is heating the corona. The third flight of Hi-C captured images of comparable resolution in a different regime of extreme ultraviolet light, enabling more direct study of the interface between the hot corona and the cooler layers lower in the solar atmosphere.

"Understanding how the Sun works is important to everyday things we do on Earth," said Winebarger, who started her scientific career as an undergraduate doing research at SAO. "Solar flares and disruptions can disrupt radio, GPS communications and satellites that disseminate cell phone signals. By studying how the Sun releases these bursts of energy, we hope to be able to better anticipate them and, in the future, design technology better equipped to withstand these disruptions."

The Hi-C experiment is led by MSFC in partnership with SAO; Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California; and the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK. Launch support is provided by NASA's Sounding Rocket Program at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, which is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the sounding-rocket program for the agency.

More about Hi-C:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/HI-C.html

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.

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https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/hi-c-launches-to-study-suns-corona/index.html

The High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, launches aboard a Black Brant IX sounding rocket at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Credits: NASA

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RockOn

https://www.nasa.gov/Wallops/2018/press-release/rocket-week-launching-for-students-and-educators-at-nasa-wallops

June 11, 2018

Rocket Week Launching for Students and Educators at NASA Wallops


The 2017 RockOn!/RockSat-C launches fr om NASA's Wallops Flight Facility as morning begins on June 22.
Credits: NASA/Kyle Hoppes

University and community college students will get a boost in their studies and support in launching their careers during Rocket Week June 15-22, 2018, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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Nearly 200 university and community college students and instructors fr om across the country will build and fly experiments on a NASA suborbital rocket through the RockOn! and RockSat-C programs.

Another 20 high school educators from across the United States will be at the Facility to examine how to apply rocketry basics into their curriculum through the Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers (WRATs)

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The week culminates at 5:30 a.m. EDT, June 21, with the launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying the students' experiments. The rocket is 36 feet long and the payload weighs 667 pounds.

The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will open at 4:30 a.m. EDT on launch day for viewing the flight. Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 5 a.m. on the Wallops Ustream site. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites. Facebook Live coverage begins at 5:15 a.m. The rocket launch is expected to be seen from the eastern shore of Virginia and Maryland.

The rocket will carry 28 experiments (measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation counts) from the RockOn! Program and several experiments from nine schools in the RockSat-C program and more than 80 small cubes with experiments developed by middle school and high school students as part of the Cubes in Space program, a partnership between idoodlelearning inc. and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.

The rocket will fly the student experiments to nearly 73-miles altitude. The experiments will land via parachute in the Atlantic Ocean wh ere they will be recovered by boat. The participants should have their experiments returned to them later in the day to begin their data analysis.

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Joyce Winterton, Wallops senior advisor for education and leadership development, said, "Rocket Week provides the participants with the opportunity to receive an authentic, hands-on learning experience. For the RockOn! and RockSat-C students, they are able to apply what they've learned in their courses and gain an invaluable experience for their careers. For the WRATS educators, they learn from engineers here at Wallops practical applications that can be applied in the classroom as they inspire the next generation."

Conducted with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia, RockOn! is in its eleventh year, RockSat-C its tenth year and WRATS is in its eighth year.

"NASA has been supporting all three programs for many years, showing the value of this type of learning experience," said Giovanni Rosanova, chief of the NASA Sounding Rocket Program Office at Wallops. "Sounding rockets and all of NASA's suborbital programs provide a unique opportunity for hands-on and experiential learning for students."

Participants in RockOn! receive instruction on the basics required to develop a scientific payload for flight on a suborbital rocket. After learning the basics in RockOn!, students may then participate in RockSat-C, wh ere during the school year they design and build an experiment for rocket flight.

Chris Koehler, director of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, said, "This year we have the largest class for RockOn! in its 11 years with nearly 100 participants. Working with NASA personnel, building an experiment and watching it fly into space is something the participants find exciting and some of the reasons this program continues to grow."

WRATS works with high school teachers to show them the basics of rocketry and how to take what they learn into the classroom. The 20 participants from Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Michigan, North Carolina, Illinois, Georgia and Pennsylvania will receive instruction on the basics of rocketry including Newton's Laws, fundamentals of electronics, drag and propulsion. This instruction will be applied to hands-on learning activities including building and launching model rockets. The educators also will attend the June 21 rocket launch.

The RockOn!, RockSat and WRATS programs are supported by the NASA Sounding Rocket Program. RockOn! also is supported by NASA's Office of Education and NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia, as well as the program participants.

NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is conducted at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility, which is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the sounding rocket program for the agency.

Keith Koehler
Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
757-825-1579
keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov

RockSat-C participants and projects

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Arizona Space Grant Consortium

The Arizona Space Grant Consortium team is a collaboration between the University of Arizona in Tucson and Arizona State University in Tempe. The mission has four objectives: to generate a continuous panoramic image as the rocket ascends cylindrical image of flight and eventually create a virtually explorable visualization of flight; to measure ionizing radiation; to observe radiation effects on bacteria and immune cells; and to measure atmospheric data using a low-cost LiDAR system.

Cubes in Space

Cubes in Space is an educational program for students age 11-18 to design experiments in a 40 mm cube and launch on a sounding rocket. The program builds awareness in the pre-college age group about easily accessible, short-duration, and relatively low-cost spaceflight missions and opportunities in support of scientific exploration objectives.

Hobart and William Smith College

The Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, New York, team is studying muon flux at different levels in the atmosphere as well as modeling how Earth's magnetic field changes with respect to altitude using a magnetometer. The team also is developing a curriculum for local middle school students based on their magnetometer experiment to promote STEM outreach. From this experiment, this team believes their results may be able to provide assistance to scientists to better model the upper atmosphere and how to interact with it.

Langston University

The goal of the Langston University in Oklahoma STEM team is to design and manufacture a clinostat – a device meant to combat the rotation of a rocket, which can be used to support growth of biological samples. The clinostat will contain vials with prebiotic and probiotic samples that will be stabilized by the clinostat. The team is also conducting a ground experiment with a centrifuge to see how the samples are affected in both situations and compare the effectiveness of the clinostat. With their results, the team hopes to study dysregulation in the immune system of astronauts during prolonged flights.

Oregon Institute of Technology

Oregon Tech's mission consists of four main experiments: a radiation shield test using four Geiger tubes, a fiber optic gyroscope mission, a data management system to record experimental values, and the development of a universal mounting system for future RockSat-C missions. Through their experiment, Oregon Tech in Klamath Falls hopes to design better systems for space applications and encourage the program at their institution.

Stevens Institute of Technology

Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, will conduct two experiments during flight. The first objective is to create a system that can record and isolate vibrations occurring in the payload for sensitive electronics and other equipment. The second experiment will measure the High-Speed Boundary Layer Transitions from laminar to turbulent pressure waves using a high frequency pressure sensor mounted in the multipurpose port. After gathering data, the team hopes to characterize the transition phase of the boundary layer through various pressures and velocities along the surface of the rocket.

University of Delaware

The University of Delaware in Newark will demonstrate the durability and test performance characteristics of a graphene-silicon based optical chip under launch conditions and construct a reusable inertial navigation system and platform for future RockSat-C missions at their university. The team is launching their experiment as part of their senior capstone project, and hope to provide accurate data for the newly developed optical chip to aid with research at their university.

University of Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin team is a collaboration between students at the Milwaukee and Sheboygan campuses. Their mission is to observe the effects of rocket flight to the lower atmosphere on DNA plasmid transfer rates and use sensors to measure the conditions during flight. The team will use four Geiger counters (with and without shielding) to study how radiation affects the samples. The team believes the data will help to better understand how the conditions found in space might affect the efficiency with which bacteria communicate with each other (such as how antibiotic resistance could be spread at a higher rate during extended space travel).

Washington & Jefferson College

The Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, team will measure the intensity of electron and ion currents in space to calculate the density and temperature of plasma. In addition, the team will measure the sodium density in a narrow layer of the atmosphere and include a Geiger tube as a radiation experiment. The team hopes their results will assist others to better understand the nature of the ionosphere.

West Virginia Collaboration

The West Virginia Space Flight Design Challenge is a collaboration between NASA IV&V in Fairmont, West Virginia; Fairmont State University; Blue Ridge Community and Technical College in Martinsburg; West Virginia University's (WVU) in Morgantown Amateur Radio Club and the National Society of Black Engineers. Fairmont's mission is to record the trajectory of the rocket and record its data in real time to eventually model the flight in 3D. Blue Ridge hopes to capture vibration data that can be used to help future teams create experiments that are designed to withstand harsh vibrations with the use of Piezoelectric Ceramic Disks. The goal of the WVU Amateur Radio Club's experiment is to provide a method of telemetry collection through the use of a transmitting station aboard the rocket and a receiving station at the launch site. They will use two antennae (one transmitting and the other a GPS) in their multipurpose port. The WVU National Society of Black Engineers will collect and store flight data (altitude, temperature, pressure, trajectory, rotation, and speed). Finally, the NASA IV&V Pathways Agency Cross-Center Connections interns' experiment includes a microfluidics experiment designed to observe channel occlusion due to protein aggregation, an RNA folding experiment, and a synthetic protocell gene expression experiment. They believe their data will benefit NASA's goal of sustained space flight, medical/pharmaceutical research and development, and the field of astrobiology research.

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Last Updated: June 11, 2018
Editor: Patrick Black

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RockOn

Опубликован NOTMAR (local)

pao_notmar_terrier_orion1.pdf - 108.9 KB, 2 стр, 2018-06-13 13:07:12 UTC

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EVE calibration, 7th launch

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/sounding-rocket-takes-a-second-look-at-the-sun

June 15, 2018

Sounding Rocket Takes a Second Look at the Sun

Tom Woods knows about space gunk.

As the principal investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE, instrument aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, he's all too familiar with the ways that exposure to the harsh space environment can lead to a spacecraft instrument's degradation.

"Since its launch in 2010, EVE's sensitivity has degraded by about 70 percent at some wavelengths," Woods said.

When your job is to measure subtle variability in extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, light emitted by the Sun, that amount of degradation, left unchecked, can be a big problem.

But all is not lost: To correct for the effects of degradation, Woods uses calibration sounding rockets. The seventh such rocket will launch fr om the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico. The launch window opens at 1 p.m. MT on June 18, 2018.

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This video shows an active region on the Sun (with an inset Earth, for size reference) taken in extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The EVE sounding rocket supports the calibration of EUV measurements taken by spacecraft to make sure the data they provide are accurate.
Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory/Steele Hill


EVE calibration sounding rockets carry a copy of the EVE instrument to approximately 180 miles above Earth, wh ere it measures EUV light from the Sun for about 10 minutes before parachuting back down to Earth for recovery. The measurements, made by the rocket instruments unaffected by degradation, are compared to the those from the degraded satellite EVE instrument, so Woods and his team can correct for any discrepancies.

"That's why the sounding rockets are so important – they're like a second channel, to calibrate the channel that is seeing the Sun all the time."


Launch (left) and payload with parachute (right) of the EVE sounding rocket from its flight on June 1, 2016.
Credits: NASA/CU-LASP

The EVE sounding rockets are a critical part of the mission. "Without the calibration, EVE wouldn't be able to do its job," Woods continued. "We really wouldn't know what the brightness of the Sun is, because we wouldn't know how much the instrument has degraded."

Measurements from the EVE sounding rocket are used to calibrate extreme ultraviolet instruments aboard several other spacecrafts, including NASA's Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED); Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE); Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO); ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Program; and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NASA's Hinode.

Thanks to calibration sounding rockets like EVE we can keep our space instruments working at full capacity — and through them, keep our eyes continuously on the skies.

By Miles Hatfield
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

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Last Updated: June 15, 2018
Editor: Rob Garner

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EVE calibration, 7th launch

Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 2 ч. назад

This was flight NASA36.336UE, the 7th flight of EVE to calibrate the total solar output measurements on the Solar Dynamics Observatory

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The Terrier booster fires for a few seconds and falls away; the Black Brant second stage fires next, shuts down and separates. The payload despins and coasts in space as it observes the Sun; then on the way down spins again as the parachute deploys after reentry

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EVE calibration, 7th launch

NASA Sounding Rocket 36.336 CU/LASP EVE

James Mason

Опубликовано: 18 июн. 2018 г.

2018-06-18 sounding rocket launch from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. T-0 at 19:00:00 UTC (1 PM local). The purpose of this flight was to take measurements of the sun in 18 wavelength channels for calibration of spacecraft instruments already on orbit. This video shows footage from the two onboard cameras. The total flight duration was ~16 minutes but this video accelerates some parts for brevity.

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EVE calibration, 7th launch

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/sounding-rocket-takes-a-second-look-at-the-sun

Update, June 19, 2018: The EVE sounding rocket successfully launched at 1 p.m. local time on Monday, June 18, from White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico. The payload deployed successfully and all 18 channels of the instrument appeared to retrieve quality solar data. The payload was successfully retrieved following parachute landing.

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RockOn

NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 5 мин. назад

LIVE at 1:15 p.m. EDT: Tune in as middle and high school students in the @CubesInSpace program go live on UStream to talk about their experiments launching from Wallops on June 21. #rocketweek2018

nasa-tv-wallops

17:15 UTC

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RockOn

Запись "Cubes in Space" (#473)

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/115670934 (1:39:47)

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RockOn

172:09:00:30 --> 172-й день года, 09:00:30 UTC 21.06.2018

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