- NASA Coqui
The Coqui and Coqui 2 (Coqui Dos) campaign involved a sequence of
sounding rocket launches in order to study the dynamics of the E- and F-regionionosphere and increase our understanding of layering phenomena, such as sporadic E layers. The studies were supported by the United States'National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and carried out in 1992 and 1998 respectively.NASA launched sounding rockets from the Puerto Rican coastal town of
Vega Baja , about 20 miles west of San Juan. Among the stated goals were to study how the Earth's ionosphere reacts to naturally-occurring phenomena by artificially simulating these phenomena using a high-frequency (HF) radar and study the ionospheric response with both theArecibo Observatory ionospheric radar and with instruments and chemical tracers carried aboard the sounding rockets.External links
* [http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/general/coquidos.pdf NASA official fact sheet on Coqui Dos]
* [http://www.americas.org/item_11601 Resource Center of the Americas: NASA Experiments Continue]
* [http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/actions/prico2.htm Activists Protest US Navy Radar Project]
* [http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/nacoq.htm Long Spark Running: NASA's Coqui Experiments]
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