Investigation of the high latitude magnetosphere and its response to the solar wind. Progress report, 15 April 1995-14 April 1996
INSPIRE is a non-profit scientific, educational corporation whose objective is to bring the excitement of observing natural and manmade radio waves in the audio region to high school students. Stimulating students to learn and understand science and technology is the key to them fulfilling their potential in the best interests of our society. INSPIRE also is an innovative, unique opportunity for students to actively gather data that might be used in a basic research project. INSPIRE began with a test bed project, ACTIVE/HSGS, which involved 100 high schools, with a centerpiece of making observations of 10.5 kHz transmissions from the Soviet ACTIVE satellite. A large number of ground receiving sites was needed, both to enhance the probability of receiving the radio waves from ACTIVE, and to determine the propagation paths to the ground. The second major project was support to SEPAC (Space Experiments using Particle ACcelerators), a payload on the ATLAS I Spacelab mission, flown in March/April 1992. With its electron accelerator SEPAC performed many experiments in the ionosphere, including producing an artificial aurora and the electromagnetic waves produced by pulsing the electron beam. INSPIRE/SEPAC provided more than 1000 ground stations to receive the radio waves, and, at the same time, allowed high school students the opportunity to take data that would be used in a published basic research project. The third major project is to make observations of the effects of a pulsed electron beam and plasma generator on the MIR Space Station. On request, these instruments are operated over INSPIRE observers.
- Research Organization:
- INSPIRE Project, Inc., Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 219437
- Report Number(s):
- N-96-21424; NASA-CR-200552; NAS-1.26:200552; NIPS-96-33399; CNN: NAG5-2564; TRN: 9621424
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Apr 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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