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ROPA - Update - January 16, 2007
The snow continues, but the solar wind is back with a vengeance...after we scrubbed early last night, there was a huge event at 4am...probably still to cloudy to launch into but spectacular levels of activity (1200 nT bay at kaktovic for those who have watched these things); so we stayed longer tonight but really there's an awful lot of snow. We are promised better weather tomorrow. In the meantime though we did get a good interference test out of the way. We are fortunate to be launching over the newly commissioned AMISR radar at Poker Flat (see http://isr.sri.com/iono/amisr/) and tonight we ran an interference test to see whether it would disturb the rocket telemetry. It did show up as a small interference, so they were able to adjust the frequencies to avoid this; this is a good thing as we very much would like AMISR data during the rocket flight.