From Ars Technica: NASA’s ATREX rockets allow study of the little-researched upper jet stream


After several canceled attempts, the five sounding rockets in NASA’s Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) finally made their way up into the thermosphere just past the edge of space early Tuesday morning. Launched 80 seconds apart, they each released a cloud of trimethylaluminum into the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

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