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SPIDER-2

SPIDER-2 sounding rocket was launched from Esrange on February 19, 2020.

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SPIDER-2 stacked payload during testing

The SPIDER-2 project was a follow-up of the SPIDER rocket to study of the Farley-Buneman instability in the auroral electrojet. The rocket carried eight Free Falling Units (FFUs) ejected from a single rocket. The FFU was an upgraded design of the SPIDER FFU, equiped with an electric field instrument, Langmuir probes and magnetometer. Besides, the main rocket carried a payload of an auroral photometer, wave propagation experiment and plasma probes. The payload was launched from Esrange on February 19, 2020, into pulsating aurora.

SPIDER-2 was a collaborative project with IAP Kühlungsborn (Dr. B. Strelnikov) and MISU (J. Gumbel).

SPIDER-2 launch
Launch of SPIDER-2 from Esrange/M. Lindh@SSC

Team

Mykola Ivchenko
Mykola Ivchenko professor

Publications

G. Giono et al, Multi-Point Measurements of the Plasma Properties Inside an Aurora From the SPIDER Sounding Rocket, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2021, 10.1029/2021JA029204 .