Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:22:55 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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CC: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, bsfsgeneral at bsfs.org
Subject: [WSFA] NASA Rocket Barrage Will Light Up Mid-Atlantic Coast
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Story:
"NASA will this week detail a mission where it will launch five rockets
in five minutes from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia that will
light up the night sky for millions of folks in a swath between New York
City and about Wilmington, NC. The five rocket blasts, which could occur
between March 14 and April 4, are part of what the space agency calls
the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX), a Heliophysics
sounding rocket mission that aims to gather data needed to better
understand the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the
surface of the Earth, NASA said." NASA will be hosting a teleconference
at 1PM EST on Wednesday to discuss the mission. They also have brief PDF
descriptions of the rockets involved: Terrier-Improved Orion, Terrier
Oriole, and Terrier Malemute.
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<http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/07/0320234/nasa-rocket-barrage-will-light-up-mid-atlantic-coast>

mark