LaTuR

LaTuR Payload Concept. Updated 04 December 1996.

Mission Readiness Review scheduled for 0900 28 January 1997

LaTuR Nominal Sequence of Events Updated 27 January 1998.

DR document 200k ps. or 62k gzipped ps file Updated 17 April 1997.

PIC document 162 k ps. or 57k gzipped ps file Updated 04 December 1996.

LaTuR Payload Concept Updated 21 February 1997.

Professor Kelley's most recent sounding rocket grant allows him to continue the study of non-linear heating effects, a study he began with the Soliton rocket in 1992. The research goal is to study linear and nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic waves with a plasma, including both parametric instabilities and the collapse of intense fields into cavitons. The rocket will fly through the Arecibo heater beam, which produces electromagnetic waves sufficiently strong to initiate parametric decay processes, a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural plasmas that deserves controlled study in an unbounded medium. The project is part of the AMNERIS campaign, scheduled for the Fall of 1997 in Puerto Rico. Dr. Kelley is also launching a rocket to study Sporadic Atom Layers during the same campaign.

Graduate students interested in working in this exciting research area are invited to ask questions of our faculty and graduate students.

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