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WE LAUNCHED!

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Principal Investigator: Steve Powell (Cornell University)

The Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (MICA) rocket, to be launched from the Poker Flat Research Range, will use a Terrier-Black Brant Mark 1 sounding rocket to deliver a scientific payload to an altitude of ~400 km in the neighborhood of an auroral arc. Through this mission, we hope to learn more about the role of active ionospheric feedback in the development of large-amplitude, small-scale electromagnetic waves, and density depletions, in the portion of the low-altitude auroral ionosphere containing the downward field-aligned current.

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