Articles from February 2015

What's Happening in the Miles Lab

Miles developed an instrument to take precise measurements of the Earth's magnetic field up to an altitude of 350 km onboard the ICI-4 sounding rocket.

Diary of a rocket scientist

This story from the University of Alberta's Folio newspaper describes Miles' work with CaNoRock, the Canada-Norway Student Sounding Rocket exchange program and the Investigation of Cusp Irregularities (ICI-4) mission. The goal of the ICI-4 campaign is to study space weather at high latitudes, and the interference it can have with GPS signals in the far North.