Polar Sounding Rocket Reveals Satellite ‘Speed Bumps’
Credit: University of New Hampshire
HOUSTON—Results from a NASA-backed sounding rocket mission are shedding light on Poleward Moving Auroral Forms (PMAF), which can serve as “speed bumps” for satellites that cause them to lose altitude. It was late in 2015 when a Black Brant sounding rocket carrying NASA’s Rocket Experiment for...
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