Thursday, October 26, 2000

FORTE

 1997-047A


FORTE (Fast On Orbit Recording of Transient Events) is a LANL/Sandia project to detect and characterize radio frequency impulses such as EMP from lightning and the noise from continuous artificial transmissions. A principal goal of the project is to understand the relationship between optical lightning flashes and VHF radio emissions from lightning.


FORTE 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1997 Aug 29  1400  L-1011 takeoff VAFB 
1997 Aug 29  1502:22  Drop 
 1502:27  Stage 1 burn 
 1505 T+2:46? Stage 2 MECO 
 1510  T+8? Stage 2 sep 
 1511 T+9? Stage 3 burn 
 1512 T+10? Stage 3 MECO
 1513:38  T+11:16 Stage 3 sep  800 x 807 x 70.0 

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