Feb 20 1979
From The Space Library
NASA reported that four organizations in the United States and Canada had formed a joint sounding-rocket program to study this month's total solar eclipse and its effect on Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere. The February 26 event, visible in totality only in the northwestern United States and central Canada, would be the last one in this century observable from the North American continent. Working from two launch sites in western Ontario north of Minneapolis, Minn., NASA, the Army's Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory, the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, and Canada's National Research Council (NRC) would gather data or predicting atmospheric responses to such disturbances.
NASA, through WFC, would be the U.S. lead agency for seven rocket launches during the operation. The NRC in Canada would provide construction, ground and flight safety, launch coordination, and other support. The Army lab would sponsor an experiment measuring electron densities, and the U.S. Air Force lab would operate a mobile observatory to measure infrared radiation from the upper atmosphere. (NASA Release 79-18)
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