Completed, Rocket Missions

LEEWAVES

June 23, 2015
LEEWAVES

The research will be carried out as an additional module on the single stage S30 carrying the SPIDER payload in early winter 2016.

The payload will be launched in this period in coordination with the DLR, GW-LCYCLE airborne test campaign. The free-falling spheres will be released, after the SPIDER FFU’s, to measure the vertical profile of the horizontal winds. The falling spheres are self-sufficient and will be recovered by helicopter for data extraction after landing with their own parachute system.

SSC is contracted for the mission

SSC is in addition providing

  • Project management
  • Service systems
  • Scientific payload support
  • System integration and testing
  • Launch service (Eurolaunch)
  • Operations

P.I. is Prof. Jörg Gumbel from the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU)

The falling spheres and their ejection system are developed by KTH

General information

Launch site Esrange Space Center
Launch date First opportunity February 1, 2016
Funded by SNSB

Technical information

Rocket type single stage S30
Nominal payload diameter 14 inches
Nominal payload weight ~ 14 kg
Apogee ~ 125 km

Contact person

Krister Sjölander, Project manager, (SSC)
krister.sjolander@uat-sscspace.hbgdesignlab.dev

Mikael Töyrä, Project Manager for the launch facilities (SSC)
mikael.toyra@uat-sscspace.hbgdesignlab.dev

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