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When we finished our initial calibrations of the bagels and top hats in November 2006, Scott Bounds and I took them out to the NASA Wallops Flight Facilty in Virginia for the payload integration and testing . During a rocket integration, the instruments...
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After months of hard work building and testing the instruments and a few weeks of waiting for just the right auroral conditions, the CHARM sounding rocket (also known as 40.019 UE Black Brant XII) was launched from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska...
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Before our eight bagels and two top hats could be flown on the sounding rocket, we had to calibrate them. This can be time consuming, so Professor Kletzing asked me to help Scott Bounds, another University of Iowa scientist, with the tests. I had never...
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It takes a lot of different people to put together instruments for a sounding rocket. Here are a few of the people from the University of Iowa who helped get the bagel and top hat style electron detectors ready for the CHARM sounding rocket: Our undergraduate...
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I bet you're wondering what an old-fashioned hat and a chewy breakfast roll have to do with space science! Top hats and bagels are two types of electrostatic analyzers flown on sounding rockets to measure high-energy electrons in space. Scientists from...
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My supervisor, Professor Craig Kletzing, and Dr. Scott Bounds, another University of Iowa scientist, build instruments for NASA sounding rockets. In the fall of 2006, I had the opportunity to help them test instruments that will be flown on the “Correlations of High-Frequencies and Auroral Roar Measurements” (CHARM). I was very excited about working on this project. I've always wanted to be a rocket scientist!...
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I work in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa , where I am part of the Experimental Particles and Electric Field Group . Scientists at the University of Iowa have been involved in many NASA space science missions, including...
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