Subject: Cascades2 report for Sat evening, Feb 21/22.

 Well, I really thought we'd go tonight but we didn't.  
The weather cleared and the aurora picked up, but we are
cursed with high winds at mid-altitudes which mean that
we are not within safety limits for launching the motors.
So we were out for winds the entire night, just like
last night.  
   We did see some very sweet aurora, and the science team
practiced calling the launch -- when to drop the count,
when to hold, when to decide to go.  It's a little
tricky to catch a 20-minute event when it takes your
rocket 10 minutes to get there...We missed the first
event of the night because we were too busy watching
it until the Kaktovic team called to say we should
have launched!  (but we were out for winds anyway).
So we were watching the diagnostics more carefully
the second time, and decided that we would have caught
the event that started at 10UT.
   Sunday night is special because the pre-midnight
period offers a conjunction with ~both~ the US Themis
satellites (5 spacecraft in the magnetospheric tail),
~and~ the European ClusterII spacecraft (an array of
4 spacecraft studying boundaries in the magnetosphere).
So if we have some good aurora -- and if we are
in for winds!!! -- we will hope to go Sunday night.

-K