A SPACE SHUTTLE EXPERIMENT WITH RADIO WAVES AT AUDIO FREQUENCIES: A joint NASA/high school/amateur experimenter's research project

摘要

An ionospheric/magnetospheric experimentrnon the STS-45 Shuttle mission scheduled for March,rn1992 will involve a high-power electron beamrnaccelerator modulated by audio tones. Amateur andrnprivate experimenters, together with 10,000 US highrnschool physics classes are being Invited by NASArnand other sponsors to participate in scientific datarntaking by listening to and recording the signals. Arnsimple and inexpenswe VLF recewer kit is being madernavailable to interested experimenters. To make thisrnproiect fully effective, amateurs need to 'bridge therngap' between the scientists and the high schools -providingrnaSSistance in helping students build the kit,rngiving classroom demonstrations of AMSA T satellitetrackingrnsoftware, and possibly giving advice andrnguidance in searching out remote and radio-quietrnlistening sites for the March '92 mission.