ACES

Principal Investigator: Scott Bounds

Auroral Current and Electrodynamics Structure (ACES) launched from Poker Flat Research Range on January 29, 2009 to take measurements within a stable auroral arc just north of Fort Yukon, AK. Measurements were also taken using ground radars. ACES consisted of two payloads, a high flyer and a low flyer, launched one minute apart to be magnetically conjugate (on the same magnetic field line) at apogee. Both payloads were instrumented to measure waves, particles, and plasma parameters.

ACES payloads; photo by S. Kaeppler