SCIFER (Sounding of the Cleft Ion Fountain Energization Region) Sounding Rocket

The experiment consists of a Black Brant XII sounding rocket payload launched from the Andoya Rocket Range, and a series of ground-based measurements made on Spitzbergen (Svalbard). The payload is instrumented with particle, field, and plasma wave measurements.

SCIFER was launched 1995 Jan 25 06:24:48 UT fromAndoya Rocket Range, Norway.

• Trajectory

Instrumentation:

Cornell University:(more information)

• 5.5 meter E-Field antenna
• plasma wave receiver and interferometer 0 Hz to 20 kHz
• 30cm HF E-Field antenna
• HF and VLF receivers 20 Hz to 5 MHz

University of Oslo:

• HF E-field spectrum analyzer

UNH:

• HEEPS-E 5eV to 16KeV electron detector
• HEEPS-I 6eV to 800eV ion detector
• BEEPS 6eV to 200eV ion detector with O+ H+ separation

Marshall Space Flight Center: (more information)

• STICS 0.1eV to 50eV ion mass spectrometer
• TECHS 0.5eV to 50eV thermal electron detector

Payload layout drawing
Instrument orientation drawing

Flight data plots

Principal Investigator:

• Paul M. Kintner / Cornell University

Co-Investigators:

• Roger Arnoldy / UNH
• Craig Pollock /MSFC
• Tom Moore /MSFC
• Charles S. Deehr / Univ. of Alaska
• Alv Egeland / University of Oslo
• Jan A. Holtet / University of Oslo