Code 810: Sounding Rockets Program Office
41.070 UE Terrier Mk 12 - Improved Orion was launched from Andoya Rocket
Range, Norway on August 6, 2007. The purpose of the MASS missions is to provide
in situ measurements of the number, density, and size distribution of the
aerosol particles responsible for noctilucent clouds (NLCs) and polar summer
mesospheric radar echoes (PMSEs) and measurements of associated electric
fields and of electron densities.
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