Sounding rockets
The institute uses sounding rockets for probing the middle atmosphere from 50 to 150 kilometres with sub-orbital flights. Because the density of air is either too low or too high there, these altitudes are neither accessible by aircraft and balloon, nor by satellite.
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Successful launch of the instrument ROMARA from Andøya/Norway in 2018. The measurements of natural ions are part of the research on polar, mesospheric winter radar echos (PMWE).
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