A combined rocket-borne and ground-based study of the sodium layer and charged dust in the upper mesosphere

• Published in: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• Main Authors: Plane, JMC, Saunders, RW, Hedin, J, Stegman, J, Khaplanov, M, Gumbel, J, Lynch, KA, Bracikowski, PJ, Gelinas, LJ, Friedrich, M, Blindheim, S, Gausa, M, Williams, BP
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: Alomar; Andøya; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80678/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80678/1/HotPay2%20paper%20in%20final%20form.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2013.11.008

The Hotel Payload 2 rocket was launched on January 31st 2008 at 20.14 LT from the Andøya Rocket Range in northern Norway (69.31° N, 16.01° E). Measurements in the 75–105 km region of atomic O, negatively-charged dust, positive ions and electrons with a suite of instruments on the payload were comple...