Real-Time Display of Ionospheric Electron Density Profiles from a Rocket-Borne Plasma Probe:The Payload,Acquisition System,and the Real-Time Results.

摘要

This is the first in a series of reports dealing with the results of a major DNA program coordinating rocket, satellite, and ground-based equatorial studies at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This report concentrates on the NRL contribution to the overall program, the direct measurement of the ionospheric plasma state as determined by on-board pulsed-plasma-probe (P3) observations of electron energies, densities, and density fluctuation power spectra. In particular, The authors describe their newly developed data acquisition system which acquired and displayed in real-time the ionospheric electron density profile as it was being measured by the P3 technique during the rocket flight. (Author)