Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP)

Author

Farr, Daniel ; Weston, Cameron ; Nielson, Tim ; Frazier, Crystal ; Stromberg, Erik ; Miller, Jason ; Swenson, Anthony ; Carrick, Brian ; Nelson, Weston ; Vangeison, Victoria ; Evans, Tanner ; Cox, Wade ; Byers, Ben ; Hidalgo, Julio Martin ; Perkins, Colin

Author_Institution

Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

8-11 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP) is a NASA sounding rocket mission to be launched in the late January 2015 time frame that will be used to study both the spatial and temporal small scale variation of the electric and magnetic fields during active aurora and just before the onset of an auroral sub-storm. This will be accomplished through the use of a constellation of small payloads that separate relative to each other throughout a sounding rocket flight.

Keywords

atmospheric electricity; atmospheric techniques; aurora; ASSP; Auroral Spatial Structures Probe; NASA sounding rocket mission; active aurora; auroral substorm onset; electric field; magnetic field; small payload constellation; sounding rocket flight; spatial small scale variation; temporal small scale variation; Crystals; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic separation; Magnetometers; Payloads; Probes; Rockets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), 2014 United States National Committee of URSI National

Conference_Location

Boulder, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3119-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/USNC-URSI-NRSM.2014.6928084

Filename

6928084