(meteorobs) ATREX mission to probe meteor level winds tonight midnight to 1:30 AM

[Wayne Hally]

RATS, it's almost impossible for the weather to be this good again. Thanx
for the update, Joe.

 

From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:25 PM
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) ATREX mission to probe meteor level winds tonight
midnight to 1:30 AM

 

NO LAUNCH TONIGHT!  Posted by RCC on 2012-03-14 at 17:43:34 EDT  NASA has
just scrubbed the launch tonight of the five suborbital sounding rockets
from the Wallops Facility as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.
The launch was scrubbed because of an internal radio frequency interference
issue with one of the rockets. The next launch attempt is no earlier than
the night of Friday, March 16.

 

Too bad . . . the weather, as Wayne noted, was letter-perfect.  It would
have been easily seen.

 

-- joe rao



-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Hally < <mailto:meteoreye at comcast.net> meteoreye at comcast.net>
To: meteorobs < <mailto:meteorobs at meteorobs.org> meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 4:10 pm
Subject: (meteorobs) ATREX mission to probe meteor level winds tonight
midnight to 1:30 AM

5 sounding rockets will launch from Wallops Flight Facility on the southern
end of the Delmarva Peninsula between midnight and 1:30, The rockets will
launch at 80 second intervals and release a tracer (trimethyl aluminum) to
create 5 to 7 visible trails to track winds from 85-134 km. It should be
visible from Massachusetts to North Carolina, and as far west as eastern W
Virginia and western PA. The weather looks superb tonight, so barring any
mariners who do not heed the notice, it should go off sometime during that
window, 

 

 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch.html>
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch.html

 

 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-nightlight.html>
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-nightlight.html

 

Countdown is scheduled to start at 7 PM EDT, and there will be a live
webcast at 10 PM here:

 

 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-nightlight.html>
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-nightlight.html

 

Wayne

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