CUPRI Campaigns

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North America

CUPRI Home
Date: misc.
Objective: Identification of type 3 and type 4 auroral echoes
CUPRI location: Ithaca, New York
Pictures from Ithaca

Waterhole III
Date: February 1983
Objective: Triggered F-region instabilities
Launch location: Ft. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
CUPRI location: Grand Rapids, Manitoba, Canada

A study of mid-latitude sporadic-E plasma instabilities
Date: August 6, 1984
Objective: Mid latitude sporadic-E
Launch location: NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility, Virginia
CUPRI location: Ft. Macon, North Carolina
Pictures from Ft. Macon

Greenland I
Date: February-March 1985
Objective: Auroral E-region
Launch location: Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland
CUPRI location: Narsarsuaq, Greenland
Pictures from Narsarsuaq
Pictures from Sondre Stromfjord

CRIT I study of the critical velocity effect
Date: May 13, 1986
Objective: CRIT I Barium release
Launch location: NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility, Virginia
CUPRI location: NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Pictures from Kennedy Space Center

South America

Condor
Date: March-April, 1983
Objective:[no objective available]
Launch location: Punta Lobos, Peru
Radar location: Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Peru

SAN MARCO/JICAMARCA
Date: October, 1989
Objective:[no objective available]
Radar location: Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Peru

NASA Guará Dip Equator Campaign
Date: August-October, 1994
Objective: Equatorial E anf F region dynamics
Launch location: Alcântara, Brazil
CUPRI location: Alcântara, Brazil
Pictures from Brazil
Data from Brazil
Original press release announcing Guará Campaign
4-Page NASA Facts Article on Guará Campaign

Carribean

CRRES/Carribean
Date: Summer 1992
Objective: Mid-latitude sporadic-E
Launch location: Puerto Rico
CUPRI location: St. Croix, Virgin Islands
CRRES Information

World Week and a Half
Date: January-February 1993
Objective: Mid-latitude sporadic-E and spread-F
CUPRI location: Lajas, Puerto Rico
Pictures from Lajas

CARMEN and Coqui Dos
Date: July 1997 -- Present
Objective: Mid-latitude sporadic-E and spread-F
Launch location: Tortorguera, Puerto Rico
CUPRI location: Isabela, Puerto Rico
Pictures from Isabela
Data from Isabela
Pictures from NASA's launch site.

Spacelab II Ionospheric Depletion Experiment
Date: July 1983
Objective: [no objective available]
Radar location: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
Pictures of Arecibo

Scandanavia

ERRRIS I
Date: March-April 1988
Objective: E-region instabilities
Launch location: ESRANGE, Sweden
CUPRI location: Kramfors, Sweden
ERRRIS Campaigns Info & Data

Dual radar PMSE study
Date: July 1988, July 1991
Objective: Multi-radar study of PMSE
CUPRI location: Trömsø, Norway
Data from Trömsø

ERRRIS II
Date: February-March 1989
Objective: E-region instabilities
Launch location: ESRANGE, Sweden
CUPRI location: Lycksele, Sweden
Pictures from Lycksele
ERRRIS Campaigns Info & Data

NLC-91
Date: July-August 1991
Objective: PMSE (NLC-91)
Launch location: ESRANGE, Sweden
CUPRI Location: Kiruna, Sweden
Data from NLC-91

Oceania

CRRES/EQUIS
Date: July-August 1990
Objective: Multi-radar study of spread-F
Launch location: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
CUPRI location: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
Pictures and data from Kwajalein
Article from 'The Kwajalein Hourglass', 7/27/90
CRRES Information

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Direct comments or suggestions to Wes Swartz.
Last modified on 01/8/30. Developed 97/9/8.