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

[skywayinc at aol.com]

To quote Edward L. Norton: "I guess we're a couple of hangnails on the fickle finger of fate." -- joe r.



-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Hally <meteoreye at comcast.net>
To: 'Meteor science and meteor observing' <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 7:01 pm
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) ATREX mission to probe meteor level winds tonight midnight to 1:30 AM



RATS, it’s almost impossible for the weather to be this good again. Thanx for the update, Joe…
 
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of skywayinc at aol.com
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 <meteoreye at comcast.net>
To: meteorobs <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-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

 

Wayne


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