UMBC-led NASA Dissipation Sounding Rocket Launch

Planetary scientist Mehdi Benna of UMBC’s Center for Space Sciences and Technology led the team behind NASA's Dissipation sounding rocket, which launched on November 8, 2023 from the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Dissipation sounding rocket carried a suite of six instruments designed to measure how Earth's upper atmosphere at high altitudes responds to large energy inputs from the sun during auroral storms.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Poker Flat Research Range, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Jason Budinoff, Visioneering Space Corporation
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Wallops Flight Facility
University of New Hampshire
Poker Flat Research Range, University of Alaska Fairbanks
The Aurora Chaser, Fairbanks, AK
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