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Uncovering
Sources of Magnetic Anomalies on a Suborbital Rocket
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| The Experiment: |
| This years entry was made by Elizabeth Linares, Clyde Murphy, and Soumon Roudra. The experiment proposal is titled, "Uncovering Sources of Magnetic Anomalies on a Suborbital Rocket." Magnetometer data from the previous three flights of this Orion suborbital rocket have shown strange periodic disturbances which begins to occur at payload separation. This experiment will use a heavily RF shielded data collection system to determine if the measurements are due to real currents or RF induced measurements picked up on the way to being sent down as telemetry. The students will travel to Wallops Flight Facility for the entire first week of June to work with NASA engineers to integrate the experiment they will be building over the next four months. They will also be a few hundred yards away to observe the rocket as it is launched to an altitude of 160,000 feet. |
| Apparatus: |
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| TIMELINE: |
January: Order PDA, Dataq CF2, memory card, calibrate magnetometers, build RF shielding box, complete engineering diagrams of structures February: Integrate magnetometers to Data logger, ground tests of magnetometer with and without RF shielding, perform live RF interference testing at Auburn University March: document all testing, and develop computer programs to evaluate data sets April: final testing and preparations to ship to Wallops Flight Facility May: ship experiment to WFF |
| Pictures from Wallops Flight Facility |