Poker Flat Rocket Launch

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Poker Flat Rocket Launch

Terry Zaperach / NASAA two-stage Terrier-Black Brant rocket is launched at the Poker Flat Research Range Saturday Feb. 18, 2012 outside Fairbanks. The rocket arced through the aurora borealis 200 miles above Alaska in a mission to investigate their effects on satellite signals. Stage one of the rocket has just separated and is beginning to fall back to earth. Cornell is leading the research team that includes the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Dartmouth College, the University of New Hampshire, the Southwest Research Institute in Texas and Oslo University.

A research rocket was launched late Saturday Feb. 18, 2012 outside Fairbanks.

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